The Minsk Detention Center No. 1 or SIZO No. 1, informally known as Volodarka, Belarusian pronunciation: Valadarka, is the central prison of Belarus located in Minsk.
Belarus is the only country in Europe that continues to carry out the death penalty. As of early 2025, capital punishment remains a legal penalty, with at least one execution confirmed in 2022 and a d
Pishchalauski Castle
…Amerikanka prison in Minsk Capital punishment in Belarus Kurapaty, woods outside Minsk where a vast number of people were executed by Stalin's NKVD in 1937–1941…
This letter was sent in 2012 to the mother of one of the perpetrators of the 2011 Minsk Metro bombing to notify her that her son had been executed.