Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty. 10 years of fight

When we launched the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty” ten years ago, our skeptical colleagues with many years of experience in human rights protection in Belarus incredulously nodded: “So, who and what is it you are going to tell about?” Indeed, this invisible tragedy of the everyday life of the country and the people was a challenge for us. A moral challenge, as you cannot be silent when in a jail right in the center of Minsk, like in the central square in the Middle Ages, people are systematically deprived of their lives. And a practical challenge, too, since all the information about the death penalty in Belarus was hidden from the public. (Ales Bialiatski, We count the years by executions, fragment)