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In Belarus, a German citizen was sentenced to death

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Belarus is the only country in Europe where the death penalty is used as a punishment at the legislative level.

In Belarus, Rico Krieger from the German Red Cross was sentenced to death. He was accused, in particular, of terrorism. Reuters wrote this on Friday, July 19.

The foreigner was found guilty under several serious articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus: “illegal actions related to firearms”, “making transport or means of communication unusable”, “creating or participating in an extremist formation”, “undercover activity”, “hiring” and “act of terrorism” “.

Earlier, the Belarusian human rights center Viasna reported that German citizen Rico Krieger was sentenced to death in Belarus.

According to Vesna, Krieger has been in custody since November 2023, and he was sentenced on June 24. The Krieger case “concerns” the Kastus Kalinovsky regiment, a Belarusian volunteer formation fighting on the side of Ukraine in the war against Russia .

Rico Krieger is known to be 30 years old. After leaving school, he received a professional education as a mechanic. For three years, the man worked as a security officer in the office of the US State Department in Berlin, then moved to the field of social assistance.

According to the data he provided on the social network, the man got a job in 2021 at the German Red Cross as an emergency medicine specialist.

In Russia, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced Evan Gershkovich, an employee of the Moscow bureau of The Wall Street Journal newspaper, US citizen, to 16 years in a maximum security colony.

The Ostankino court in Moscow sentenced US and Russian citizen Robert Woodland to 12.5 years in a maximum security colony on criminal charges of drug trafficking.

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Source: korrespondent

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