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"As a politician and as a human being, I will not hide the fact that I have growing doubts about the death penalty as such. When I started my political career, I believed in it. At present, the arguments of those who say that the death penalty is an inhuman punishment in the world of today appeal more and more to me – and I admit it. This is one aspect of our discussion here, today.
Yet there is also another aspect, since we are arguing not only against the death penalty as such, but against an undemocratic political system, in respect of which we are not even sure whether persons who may be innocent – and I stress, persons who may be innocent – were chosen for political purposes, so that the regime could boast of success and divert the attention of the country’s public from President Lukashenko’s gigantic failures. We should take this opportunity to reiterate our appeal to President Lukashenko: Mr President, please pardon these individuals."@en1
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