Let us recall, on 11 November 2014, Volha Hrunova has received a notification saying that her her son had been executed. On the same day she got the certificate of her son’s death from the registrar, in which it was said that the death sentence against her son was executed on 22 October, 2014 in Minsk, the death sentence passed by the Homel Regional Court was listed as a cause of death.

Volha Hrunova asked the court to disclose the exact time of execution and the burial place, but her request was rejected. All attempts to challenge the denial were not a success.- the Homel Tsentralny district court has passed a ruling to refuse launching of civil proceedings on the ground of non-compliance of the appeal with the court’s jurisdiction.

At the same time, Ms. Hrunova wrote to the Constitutional Court asking to check for compliance of Articles 7 and 25 of the Constitution with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as Article 175 of the Criminal Executive Code, which prohibits to disclose the place of burial of executed people. Representatives of President’s Administration told the woman that the ban is linked to the need to ensure public order and protect morals, because the information about the place of burial can cause negative effects.

Another complaint on behalf of executed Aliaksandr Hrunou was registered by the UN Human Rights Committee under the number 2375/2014. His interests and the interests of his mother have been represented by a representative of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus”, Leanid Sudalenka.  

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