Death Sentence to Belarus Terrorist Bombers
The two Belarusians terrorist that blew up a bomb in the subway system that killed 15 people, have been sentenced to death by a court in Minsk, Belarus. Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalyov, sentenced to death not because of political motives but because of hatred to humankind, according to investigators. They had prior accusations to other non-fatal bombings in 2005 and 2008. According to evidence collected, the Supreme Court found that Konovalov built a bomb and stayed with Kovalyov in his apartment in Minsk to prepare for the blast. Also noted was that Kovalyov was aware of the bomb attacks. Opposite to this eveidence, Konovalov’s lawyer claims that the presented evidence was trivial and inconclusive. It included a videotape of the subway station supposedly showing Kovalyov to the blast area with a very poor image quality and that certain experts claim there were no traces of explosive objects. Not just the attorneys felt there were no convictions against their clients, but also an injured citizen felt that in the first session he felt strongly convinced it was they, but later after evidence, he did not have the same conviction opinion.
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Belarus is Europe’s only country that still puts people to death, and rights activists claim around 400 people have been executed here since the 1991 Soviet collapse. The authoritarian country carries out executions with a bullet to the back of the head; the time and place is a state secret, and relatives of those executed are never told where the bodies are buried.
Comment:
Belarus is Europe’s only country that still puts people to death, and rights activists claim around 400 people have been executed here since the 1991 Soviet collapse. The authoritarian country carries out executions with a bullet to the back of the head; the time and place is a state secret, and relatives of those executed are never told where the bodies are buried.
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