End the death penalty in Belarus!

By Heather McGill, Amnesty International’ researcher on Belarus
I met with Colonel Oleg Alkaev in Berlin in October 2008. He had been the Director of remand prison (SIZO)6 No.1 in Minsk between 1996 and 2001. In this capacity he was in charge of a shooting squad of 13 men.He published a book to describe his experience […]