Stop executions in Belarus

All information on the death penalty in Belarus is kept secret. There are no available statistics for the number of executions. Amnesty International, however, estimates that as many as 400 people may have been executed since Belarus gained its independence in 1991. At least four people were executed and one more sentenced to death in 2008.

As Colonel Oleg Alkaev explains in this video, prisoners on death row are told they will be executed only moments before the sentence is carried out. They are shot in the back of the head and their place of burial is kept secret causing further distress to relatives.