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- Learning from HRDs: Executions in Belarus
Learning from HRDs: Executions in Belarus - Conveyor of death in the heart of Europe
Tuesday 5 March 2019, 1.00PM
Speaker(s): Andrei Paluda, Centre for Applied Human Rights
Andrei Paluda, a death penalty abolition campaigner, will talk about the procedures of executing people in Belarus, a tradition still in place from the Soviet Union era. He will speak about the suffering of people, secret burials and executions in central Minsk, and ask what do human rights defenders do, both in Belarus and around the globe, to put an end to capital punishment?
Location: AEW/104 Lecture Room, Alcuin East Wing, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD
Admission: Free with ticket from Eventbrite, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/executions-in-belarus-conveyor-of-death-in-the-heart-of-europe-tickets-53808278008
Email: cahr-admin@york.ac.uk