Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (pictured) has spared convicts sentenced to death in the authoritarian central Asian nation. The former Soviet state has ratified a UN treaty...
On 23 September, at the headquarters of the UN, the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Kairat Umarov signed the Second Optional Protocol to...
The European Parliament strongly opposes capital punishment and pushes for its worldwide abolition. Find out more. Capital punishment: facts and figures By 2019, 142 countries had...
On 30 July, the Vitebsk Regional Court in Belarus reportedly sentenced to death Viktar Paulau after finding him guilty of double murder. The European Union expresses...
Parliament strongly opposes capital punishment and will host the opening of the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty on 27 February. Find out more below....
“Something is wrong in a country if they feel they need the death penalty!” This is how MEP Claude Moraes (S&D) (pictured), chairman of the Committee...
On the World Day against the Death Penalty (10 October), the Council of Europe and the European Union reaffirm their strong and unequivocal opposition to capital...
