Belarus Denies Death Row Inmates Time For Last Rites and Religious Funerals

Forum 18 reported yesterday on the continuing religious freedom problems relating to death row prisoners in Belarus. Condemned prisoners are told the date and time for their execution only at the last minute. They do not have time to receive a visit from a priest, make confession or take communion. Also bodies of executed prisoners are not handed over to families for burial, and the families are not informed of the place of burial.  This makes it very difficult for families to arrange for a religious funeral for the executed prisoner.