MINSK. April 21 (Interfax) - The death penalty has been carried out for Pavel Selyun, who was found guilty of brutally killing two people, human rights activists said.
"It emerged today that the death sentence has been put into effect with respect to 23-year old Pavel Selyun, a history student from the Belarusian State University," sources from Vesna, a human rights group which is not registered in Belarus, told Interfax on Friday.
"Today Selyun's mother learnt from his lawyer that the sentence was carried out. The lawyer came to a meeting with her client but the jail staff told her that Selyun was "gone as per the verdict." Plainly speaking, it means he was executed," human rights activists said.
"No written documents or messages were sent to Pavel's relatives," according to the human rights center. His mother was completely unaware of the commission's pardon decision and the execution date. She was going to visit her son over the next few days," the activists said.
On June 12, 2013, Selyun, born in 1990, was found guilty by the Grodno regional court of pre-meditated murder, abuse of a corpse, and stealing a passport and another important documents, Interfax said earlier, citing the Supreme Court. He was sentenced to capital punishment - the death penalty. The supreme court rejected Selyun's appeal and upheld the death sentence.