The Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ( be, Крымінальны кодэкс Рэспублікі Беларусь — КК РБ K RB russian: Уголовный кодекс Республики Беларусь — УК РБ K RB contains the fundamental laws to announce what is considered illegal to perform inside

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

. Passed in 1999, several of these laws were carried over from laws passed in 1960 as the

Byelorussian SSR The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

. In the 1999 edition, the Criminal code contains passages of crimes that can be issued

capital punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that ...

upon sentencing. As of 2022, court cases in Belarus are often scheduled ten minutes apart from one another and can conclude in as little three minutes, and have been criticized for being "not a court". Consistently from 2016 through 2020, trials resulting in a guilty verdict occurred at a frequency of 99.7% and 99.8%.

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Belarus criminal law

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