Belarus
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- nominally a republic, in fact a dictatorship
- CONSTITUTION
- March 15, 1994; amended 1996, 2004
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law; not subject to the jurisdiction of the ICJ
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, National Assembly (Natsionalnoye Sobranie) composed of the Council of the Republic (Soviet Respubliki) and the House of Representatives (Palata Predstaviteley)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (composed of the president and vice president and organized into various specialized chambers, including economic and military; number of judges determined by the president of the republic and the president of the court); Constitutional Court (composed of 12 judges, including a president and a vice president); oblast courts; City Court of Minsk; city courts; Economic Courts of the city and oblast of Minsk
RELIGIONS
Orthodox 48.3%, Catholics 7.1%, others 3.5%, non-believers 41.1% (estimate 2011)
From the country
- MARCH 23, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: TWO AMNESTY EXPERTS ARRIVE IN MINSK TO DISCUSS DEATH PENALTY
two representatives of the global human rights watchdog Amnesty International arrived in Minsk, Belarus, on a four-day visit.
- MARCH 11, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUSIAN TOP JUDGE SAYS DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION UP TO REFERENDUM
“It is the president and parliament that can initiate abolition of death penalty in Belarus,” the chairman of the Constitutional Court of Belarus, Pyotr Miklashevich, told a news conference.
- MARCH 6, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
MP PROPOSES INTRODUCING MORATORIUM IN BELARUS
the Belarusian authorities are unlikely to agree to abolish the death penalty in the
- JANUARY 27, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO FIGHT AGAINST DEATH PENALTY
A campaign “Human Rights Activists against Death Penalty” has started in Belarus.
- JANUARY 21, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
POSSIBLE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AS BELARUS JOINS COUNCIL OF EUROPE, PROSECUTOR GENERAL
Belarus can abolish the death penalty in its pursuit to join the Council of Europe...
- JANUARY 1, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Article 24 of the constitution reads that
Article 24 of the constitution reads that "the death penalty...
- OCTOBER 31, 2008BelarusDEATH PENALTY
the Belarusian mass media reported...
the Belarusian mass media reported...
- OCTOBER 28, 2008BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International is launching a campaign to have the death penalty in Belarus abolished
Amnesty International is launching a campaign to have the death penalty in Belarus abolished
- OCTOBER 6, 2008BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUSIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING YOUTH
at the Homel regional court in Belarus...
- JUNE 20, 2008BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS. DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, MURDERING NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY
the Homyel Regional Court in Belarus sentenced a 27year old man to death by shooting
- JUNE 6, 2008BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS. OFFICIALS HINT MORATORIUM A STEP AWAY
Belarus, the last country in Europe to apply the death penalty, will eventually abolish
- APRIL 17, 2008BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS. LAWMAKER: DEATH PENALTY CANNOT BE SCRAPPED ‘IN ONE GO’
the head of the lower house of Belarus' parliament said that "the death penalty is