The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area Statistics on Executions According to the response of Belarus to the ODIHR questionnaire on the death penalty, two individuals were executed during the reporting period. Grigory Antonovich Yuzepchuk (born on 7 June 1969, a resident of the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine and a citizen of the Republic of Belarus) was sentenced to death by the Mogilevskiy Regional Court on 23 April 2013 for killing a cellmate in prison No.4 in Mahiliou, where he was serving a 25-year sentence for murder.116 He has appealed the sentence to the Supreme Court.117 On 12 July 2013, the Court upheld the death sentence. Grigory Yuzepchuk’s application for clemency was denied by the president.118 Pavel Nikolaevich Selyun (born on 20 July 1990, a resident of the Minsk region and a citizen of the Republic of Belarus) was sentenced to death by the Hrodna Regional Court on 12 June 2013 for the murder of two persons, among other criminal acts.119 He had appealed the sentence to the Supreme Court.120 On 17 September 2013, the Court upheld the death sentence. Pavel Selyun’s application for clemency was denied by the president.121 The Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Belarus to the OSCE did not provide information about the dates of execution of Grigory Yuzepchuk and Pavel Selyun. International Safeguards According to the response of Belarus to the ODIHR questionnaire on the death penalty, the UN Human Rights Committee registered individual communications on behalf of Pavel Selyun on 27 September 2013, and on behalf of Aleksandr 116  “Urgent Action: Prisoner Kills Cellmate, Sentenced to Death”, Amnesty International, 13 June 2013, <http://www. amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR49/007/2013/en/f3801275-3750-4496-9c31-330fe5c8e15c/eur490072013en. pdf>. According to the response of Belarus to the ODIHR questionnaire on the death penalty, Grigory Yuzepchuk was sentenced to death for committing offences under “parts 15, 16 of paragraph 2 of Article 139 of the Criminal Code of Belarus”. 117  “Смертный приговор Григорию Юзепчуку оставлен в силе”, правозащитный центр “Вясна”, 18 July 2013, <https://spring96.org/ru/news/64496>. 118  Belarus response, op. cit., note 99. 119  According to the response of Belarus to the ODIHR questionnaire on the death penalty, Pavel Selyun was sentenced to death for committing offences under “parts 1,6 of paragraph 2 of Article 139, paragraph 1 of Article 205, paragraph 1 of Article 347 and Article 378 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus”. 120  “Urgent Action: A 23 year-old man has been sentenced to death in Western Belarus on 12 June for a double murder”, Amnesty International, 27 June 2013, <http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR49/009/2013/ en/32c764c8-8c46-4885-833f-1d11056d2d03/eur490092013en.pdf>. 121  Belarus response, op. cit., note 99. 29