Political prisoner Siarhei Pavalishau is free
https://spring96.org./en/news/104830
2021
2021-09-01T18:40:54+0300
2021-09-01T18:40:54+0300
2021-09-01T18:40:55+0300
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The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
Political prisoner Siarhei Pavalishau has been released form pre-trial detention, according to his lawyer. The charges against Pavalishau, however, are still in place.
Siarhei Pavalishau is director at hoster.by, the country’s largest registrar and technical administrator of national domain zones .BY / .БЕЛ. He was arrested on May 18 together with fifteen more persons as part of an unprecedented attack on the major online portal tut.by and its affiliated businesses.
Other journalists, media managers and administrative employees arrested in the case remain in detention facing politically motivated tax evasion charges.