Belarus
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · President Alexander Lukashenko has been sharply criticized...
- News items in the archive
- 241
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Belarus is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 241 news items on Belarus, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- APRIL 14, 2011BelarusDEATH PENALTY
PACE URGES BELARUS TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on
MARCH 1, 2011BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: MAN GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE
the High Court of Belarus confirmed the death sentence against Igor Myalik, 39, for
- FEBRUARY 25, 2011BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: PRESIDENT LUKASHENKO DENIES CLEMENCY TO TWO DEATH ROW INMATES
Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenko rejected clemency requests from death
- FEBRUARY 15, 2011BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE
“I am deeply disappointed and concerned by the decision taken on Friday (February
- JANUARY 1, 2011BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Article 24 of the constitution reads that
Article 24 of the constitution reads that "the death penalty...
DECEMBER 6, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: LUKASHENKO URGES TO REVISIT DEATH PENALTY ISSUE
The issue of capital punishment in Belarus should be revisited, said President Alexander
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR TWO MEN: COURT
the Belarussian supreme court upheld death sentences handed to two men found guilty
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERIES, KILLINGS
One criminal gang member was sentenced to death and another to life imprisonment
- MAY 28, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
TWO BELARUSIAN CITIZENS CONVICTED OF TRIPLE MURDER APPEAL DEATH SENTENCE
two unidentified men appealed their death sentences by firing squad for a triple murder to Belarus's Supreme Court, a local court official said.
- MAY 14, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: 2 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
at a court in Grodno, Belarus, judge Pyotr Bandyk sentenced Aleg Gryshkautsou (29) and Andrei Burdyka (28), to death for the October murder of two women and a man during an armed robbery.
- MARCH 24, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
HOC: VASILY YZEPCHUK’S EXECUTION IN BELARUS SHOWS ITALIAN GOVERNMENT IS INCONSISTENT IN PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS
Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D’Elia and Elisabetta Zamparutti, Radical parliamentarian
- MARCH 23, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE DENOUNCES EXECUTIONS IN BELARUS
the Council of Europe denounced the execution of two death row inmates in Belarus.
- MARCH 23, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUSIAN ACTIVISTS DETAINED FOR PROTESTING DEATH PENALTY
four Belarusian activists protesting recent executions were detained near President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's office in Minsk, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
- MARCH 22, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS CARRIES OUT TWO EXECUTIONS
two men were executed in Belarus at the end of last week, Amnesty International reported.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS ON ITS OWN WAY TOWARDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BAN
Belarus will seek its own way to ban capital punishment, Nikolai Samoseiko, Chairman
- JANUARY 1, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Article 24 of the constitution reads that
Article 24 of the constitution reads that "the death penalty...
- DECEMBER 15, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: MORE TIME NEEDED FOR MORATORIUM
Belarus isn’t excluding the introduction of the moratorium on the death penalty, but it needs more time.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS STARTS CAMPAIGN ON ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Belarus will soon launch an information campaign to press for the abolition
- OCTOBER 27, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2 KILLINGS
a man in Belarus was sentenced to death for killing two guards while robbing a vehicle carrying cash despite his request for clemency.
- OCTOBER 22, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
ITALY/BELARUS: ZAMPARUTTI- ITALIAN COMMITMENT AGAINST DEATH PENALTY DISAPPOINTING
regarding today’s reply by Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Luigi Scotti to the urgent parliamentary question on Vasil Yuzepchuk’s imminent execution in Belarus, Radical Parliamentarian and Hands Off Cain treasurer Elisabetta Zamparutti said:
- OCTOBER 21, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS SHOULD IMPOSE MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY – EU COMMISSION
the abolition of the death penalty in Belarus is one of the key conditions for developing the relations between the European Union and Minsk, said Jean-Eric Holzapfel, head of the European Commission's delegation to Belarus.
- OCTOBER 20, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
UN CALLS ON BELARUS TO HALT EXECUTION
the United Nations called on Belarus to halt the imminent execution of a man accused of murdering of six elderly women. Vasily Yuzepchuk was sentenced to death on June 29.
- OCTOBER 20, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
ITALY-BELARUS: RADICALS- DEATH SENTENCE TEST CASE OF THE ‘GOOD RELATIONS’ BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES
together with other elected Radical parliamentarians from the Democratic Party list, Elisabetta Zamparutti presented an urgent parliamentary question to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs regarding the case of Vasil Yuzepchuk.
- OCTOBER 13, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: PRESIDENT DENIES PARDON
Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko refused to pardon death row inmate Vasily Yusepchuk,
- OCTOBER 12, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS. DEATH CONVICT YUZEPCHUK HAS SOME HOPE AGAIN
the UN Human Rights Committee registered the individual address of Vasil Yuzepchuk, sentenced to death
- OCTOBER 10, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
in the World Day against the Death Penalty...
in the World Day against the Death Penalty, the Council of Europe’s information centre in Minsk launched a campaign on abolition of the death penalty.
- OCTOBER 9, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: MAN ON DEATH ROW COMPLAINS TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
Vasil Yuzepchuk, sentenced to death for murdering six old women, complained to the UN Human Rights Committee.
- OCTOBER 7, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: IMMINENT EXECUTION MUST BE STOPPED
Amnesty International urged the President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko to grant clemency to a man
- OCTOBER 2, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: TOP COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
the Belarus Supreme Court rejected the final appeal against the death sentence given to Vasil Yuzepchuk,
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2009BelarusDEATH PENALTY
ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER URGES BELARUS TO HOLD “PERMANENT HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSION”
Belarus should hold a "permanent" public discussion on human rights, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told reporters in Minsk.