On the European and World Day against the Death Penalty, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland urged Belarus to establish a moratorium on the death penalty.
This would be"a decisive step to bringing the country closer to pan-European legal standards", they state in a joint press release. Mogherini and Jagland also "call on all European states to ratify the protocols to the...