Urgent Action Update: Two Prisoners at Risk of Imminent Execution (Belarus: UA 17.18)

December 14, 2018

There is grave concern that the only two known prisoners on death row in Belarus, Aliaksandr Zhylnikau and Viachaslau Sukharko, are at risk of imminent execution.

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There is grave concern that the only two known prisoners on death row in Belarus, Aliaksandr Zhylnikau and Viachaslau Sukharko, are at risk of imminent execution.

1) TAKE ACTION
Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

  • Urging the Belarusian authorities to halt the executions of Aliaksandr Zhylnikau and Viachaslau Sukharko;
  • To Immediately establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty;
  • To commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment.

Contact these two officials by 25 January, 2019:

Chair of the Parliamentary Working Group on the Death Penalty
Andrei Naumovich
Ul. Sovetsakaya d.8
231291 Lida Belarus
Email: [email protected]
Salutation: Dear Mr Naumovich

Chargé d´Affaires Mr. Pavel Shidlovsky, Embassy of Belarus
1619 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington DC 20009
Phone: 1 202 986 1604 I Fax: 1 202 986 1805 OR
Email: [email protected]
Salutation: Dear Ambassador

2) LET US KNOW YOU TOOK ACTION
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