The cases of Andrei Zhuk and Vasily Yuzepchuk were pending at the Human Rights Committee, which had requested interim measures of protection.
Belarus ignores UN recommendations
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee call upon Belarus to consider the rule of law as the principle under which penal justice is executed, and to therefore fully implement the recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The Government of Belarus should 
also establish an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty, in line with the United Nations General Assembly resolution 63/168 adopted on 18 December 2008.
Finally, the more than 50 organisations signing the letter, urge the Belarusian authorities to put an end to the harassment against all human rights defenders. Most recently, some members of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna” (Ales Bialiatski, Valiantsin Stefanovich (picture on the left, taken before the action of protest), and Iryna Toustsik) were arrested on 23 March 2010 while protesting against the use of the death penalty and the executions of Andrei Zhuk and Vasily Yuzepchuk.
The copies were sent to Minister of Justice Viktor Golovanov, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko, United Nations Human Rights Committee, etc.
You can 
find the letter here.
Map of death penalty in the World
Legend: * Blue: The death penalty is completely abolished * Green: abolished except special circumstances (like war) * Orange: Not used in the past 10 years * Red: Used regularly.
Belarus remains the only nation to use the death penalty in Europe. Although no one was executed in this country in 2009, two executions have taken place in March 2010.
NHC
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee was founded in 1977. The Committee’s work is based on the principles of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 and other international human rights documents. The 
NHC views the international human rights documents legally, morally, and politically binding for all states.
Activities of NHC are aimed to support democratic development and human rights, both in Norway and abroad. The Committee has a small grants fund to support projects in the field of human rights protection for the Central Asian region.
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