An image showing a simulation of the execution method used in Belarus - the executioner shoots the victim in the back of the head with a silenced Makarov pistol - February 2009. AI recieved information about the execution method used in Belarus from Oleg Alkaev, Commander of executionersâ team in Belarus 1996 â 2001, see ADAM id:25063. Belarus is the last state in Europe and Central Asia that still retains the death penalty.
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Hyderabad, Pakistan. 10th October 2013 -- Human Rights activists hold a protest against the death penalty on the eve of 'World Day against the Death Penalty' outside the press club in Hyderabad.