Amnesty International has called on Belarusian...
that Yuzepchuk was beaten to force him to confess to the crimes.Zhuk was sentenced to death on 22 July 2009, for the armed assault on and murder of a man and woman in February 2009. His father was taken to hospital on Monday having suffered a heart attack after hearing the news of the execution.
"Andrei Zhuk and Vasily Yuzepchuk were executed without being granted a last meeting with their relatives. The authorities must give their bodies and belongings to their relatives, should they wish to receive them. If they refuse to hand over the bodies, they must at least inform the relatives where their loved ones were buried," Gowan said.
The death sentences of Zhuk and Yuzepchuk were passed shortly after the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted to restore Special Guest Status to the Belarusian Parliament, on the condition that Belarus declare a moratorium on the imposition of the death penalty.
MOSCOW, March 22 (RIA Novosti)
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