{"id":584160,"date":"2026-10-02T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=584160"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:19:18","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-there-is-no-place-for-the-death-penalty-in-a-rule-of-law-democratic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-there-is-no-place-for-the-death-penalty-in-a-rule-of-law-democratic-state","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya: There Is No Place for the Death Penalty in a Rule-of-Law Democratic State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tsikhanouskaya\/9816\">spoke out<\/a> against the death penalty in Belarus in connection with the Week Against the Death Penalty, which will take place from October 5 to 10. Belarus remains the only country in Europe where death sentences are carried out.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHuman life is the highest value. There is no place for the death penalty in a rule-of-law democratic state, nor can there be. The Week Against the Death Penalty is an opportunity to say once again what kind of Belarus we want to see: a country where human lives and the right to life are protected by law,\u201d<\/i> the politician emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>She thanked the Viasna Human Rights Centre, which <i>\u201cdoes not allow this issue to disappear from public attention.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The full list of events for the Week Against the Death Penalty can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/dp.spring96.org\/be\/news\/121292\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya spoke out against the death penalty in Belarus in connection with the Week Against the Death Penalty, which will take place from October 5 to 10. Belarus remains the only country in Europe where death sentences are carried out. \u201cHuman life is the highest value. There is no place for the death penalty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":515667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6abf690ba449c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya: There Is No Place for the Death Penalty in a Rule-of-Law Democratic State"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[143172],"class_list":["post-584160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584161,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584160\/revisions\/584161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}