Belarus executes 23-year-old history student for aggravated murder
Pavel Selyun was sentenced to capital punishment by Hrodna Regional Court last June of violating four articles in the Penal Code of Belarus.
The articles were: brutal murder of two people; theft; mutilation of corpses and theft of personal documents. The young man had no previous convictions. The BSU student explained his deeds by jealousy: the murdered people were his wife and her lover. He caught them at home.
Pavel was sentenced to death by shooting. The Supreme Court left the sentence in force. Pavel pled Alyaksandr Lukashenka for mercy after that.
Pavel Selyun’s mother has learnt that the sentence has already been executed from the lawyer today, spring96.org reports.
The UN Human Rights Committee registered Pavel Selyun’s appeal. The state should not have executed him before the appeal was considered. Thus, the Republic of Belarus has violated its international commitments again, human rights defenders think.
