Aliaksei Mikhalenya was charged with the murder of two people committed with special cruelty (Paragraphs 1, 6, 16 of Part 2 of the Article 139 of the Criminal Code). Those two people were a brother and a sister who lived together in one house.
The court also ruled to collect compensation from Aliaksei for moral damages to the aggrieved person in the amount of 50 thousand rubles (approximately 26500 USD).
The bodies of elderly brother and sister were found on 5 March 2016 in a private house in Narovlya. They lived together.
After a while the alleged killer, who lived nearby, was arrested. It is also known that this man was previously convicted for a theft and when he was a minor – for murder.
Aliaksei Mikhalenya has the right to appeal the sentence in Supreme Court in Belarus, as well as right to get the Presidential pardon.
It is worth mentioning, that one month ago the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) started the online campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in Belarus.
FIDH published a video in social media titled “Meanwhile in Belarus”, referring to the well-known video concept “Meanwhile in …”. Many videos, published under this title on social networks show an absurd behavior. Video “Meanwhile in Belarus” was created in order to show that the death penalty today is absurd.
“The death penalty is a legalized murder, which does not restore justice. It helps to escalate violence in the society and has no effect on the crime rate,”- says the president of FIDH Dimitris Christopoulos.
Video calls on Internet users to act for the abolition of the death penalty in Belarus: to visit the website “Belarus: last country in Europe to carry out the death penalty” and to sign the petition for the abolition of the death penalty.
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