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"en.20120216.28.4-480-000"2
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"Mr President, Commissioner, we have spoken many times already in this Chamber about the political situation in Belarus and we have adopted critical resolutions on the matter of that country’s respect for human rights. Today, however, we have decided to focus on a particularly tragic aspect of the Belarusian reality – the handing down and implementation of the death penalty in the country.
Recently – in November last year – two men alleged to be responsible for the bombings on the Minsk metro were sentenced to death. It is not in our power to decide the guilt or innocence of the two convicts, but we are of the same opinion regarding many very serious questions in respect of the fairness of the trial. We therefore urge the authorities to refrain from implementing this penalty, in particular, in the case of these two men – Konovalov and Kovalev – but also to introduce a general moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty, since the latter is brutal and irreversible. We also call on the Belarusian authorities to stop further repression of human rights defenders and democracy activists and to engage in dialogue with the European Union, under the condition that they release all political prisoners."@en1
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