Two men sentenced to death in Belarus for metro bombing

Published 8 December 2011

Last week a court in Belarus sentenced two men to death for bombing a Minsk metro station in April; the attack killed fifteen people and injured dozens; the two men were also linked to bombings in 2005 and 2008; Judge Alexander Fedortsov called the two men “an extreme danger to society”; Belarus is one of the few countries in Europe that maintains the death penalty; executions are carried out by a shot from a pistol

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