Commission considered “petitions for pardon” by Sannikov and Bandarenka

The decision to release the political prisoners is to be made by Lukashenka personally.

Recently the Pardon Commission gathered for another session. Among other things, members of the commission considered petitions for pardon of Uladzislau Kavalyou, who had been sentenced to death, as well as petitions of the presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov and Zmitser Bandarenka.

Euroradio has been informed about that by the chairman of the commission Mikalai Samasejka. But he refused to say what decision had been adopted by the commission.

“As for the session of the Pardons Commission, I will not comment it, either on Sannikov’s case, or on terrorists, or on other significant or insignificant cases. Everything is to appear in the press, it’s Lukashenka’s competence,” Samasejka said.

It is not clear when his decision is to become known.

We remind that on November 30, 2011 the Supreme Court sentenced Uladzislau Kavalyou and Dzmitry Kanavalau to death penalty for alleged staging a terrorist attack in Minsk metro. Kavalyou wrote a petition for pardon back in early December 2011. As a result of tortures and threats Andrei Sannikov, a political prisoner, wrote a petition for pardon on November 20, 2011. One more political prisoner, Zmitser Bandarenka, was forced to write a petition on February 1, 2012.