The internet company said it is to stop censoring internet search results in China and direct all traffic from its servers there to Hong Kong

The law protects those responsible for thousands of killings and disappearances during the country's armed conflict from 1980 to 1992.

Andrei Zhuk and Vasily Yuzepchuk were sentenced to death in 2009 for separate crimes but had been sharing a death row cell in Minsk.