28/10/2019 (Agence Europe) – The spokesman of the European External Action Service (EEAS) called again on Belarus on Monday 28 October to put in place a moratorium on the death penalty, after the Brest Regional Court sentenced Viktar Serhil to death. The EEAS, which had already made this request last July in the context of another conviction (see EUROPE 12308/18), considers that a moratorium would be "a positive first step towards the abolition of the death penalty" in Belarus, the last European country to apply it. "The European Union", the EEAS spokesman recalled, "opposes in all circumstances" this "inhuman and ineffective punishment, that fails to act as a deterrent". (AC, intern)