Belarus pardons German sentenced to death
President Alexander Lukashenko has decided to pardon a German man sentenced to death on terrorism and other charges, the BelTA state news agency reports. The man’s lawyer had already said Lukashenko was mulling the bid.POLITICSBELARUS
Belarus pardons German sentenced to death
President Alexander Lukashenko has decided to pardon a German man sentenced to death on terrorism and other charges, the BelTA state news agency reports. The man’s lawyer had already said Lukashenko was mulling the bid.
State media in Belarus on Tuesday reported that President Alexander Lukashenko had decided to pardon German national Rico K., who was sentenced to death in June on terrorism and other charges.
It was already known that his lawyers were seeking a stay of execution and that Lukashenko was considering the bid, after he had asked for a pardon on TV.
Lukashenko was holding a meeting to consider the pardon request in Minsk on Tuesday.
“I’ve already said before that the hardest thing in the life of a president is such cases related to the death penalty,” Lukashenko was quoted as saying at the meeting.
