She didn’t receive letters from her brother for a month and a half. Recently, a woman was going to visit Pavlov on a date, but she was denied permission in the pre-trial detention center. At the request of Raisa Pavlova, a lawyer turned to the pre-trial detention center, she was told that Pavlov was not there.
“Sister Pavlova believes that these facts indicate that her brother was shot. Viktor’s family has not yet received official documents on the execution of the sentence,” the human rights activists said.
On June 17, the European External Action Service said that the refusal to provide timely information to relatives in Belarus had already indicated that a secret execution had been carried out. Statement published on the service website.
“It is necessary to put an end to the secrecy of the penitentiary system in Belarus. The European Union recalls its unconditional rejection of the use of the death penalty in all circumstances. “, – stressed the speaker of the European Union’s foreign policy service Nabila Massrali.
Pavlov was found guilty of the murder of two pensioners. He was sentenced to death in July 2019, about this reported human rights center “Vesna”.
Belarus is the only state in Europe and the last among the post-Soviet countries to use the death penalty. By data human rights activists, over 300 people have been executed in Belarus over the years of independence.
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