News on the topic: Ales Bialiatski
10.02.2023 UN Special Rapporteurs informed about violations of the rights and freedoms of Viasna members during the trial
Viasna lawyer Sviatlana Halauniova explains which violations were described in the communication to the Special Rapporteurs.
09.02.2023 Sapelka: “Incredibly long prison sentences for honest and brave people are staggering in their inhumanity”
Viasna human rights advocate comments on the enormous sentences requested by the prosecutor to his fellows.
09.02.2023 Prosecution requests 12-year sentence for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski
Viasna trial reached the closing arguments step.
07.02.2023 “The case is unprecedented. What is that if not politics?” Human rights defenders interrogated in the Viasna case
Viasna tells what our fellow human rights defenders said in court.
02.02.2023 All 284 volumes of Viasna case files presented to court
Along with open source data, the materials also contain police surveillance and wiretap data.
31.01.2023 Wiretap recordings, a list of political prisoners, and materials from Viasna website: what's inside Viasna case file
Viasna tells what constitutes the prosecution evidence and what is really targeted in these proceedings.
30.01.2023 Bialiatski: “Criminalizing aid to victims of political repression is immoral and inhumane”
Viasna tells what happened at the trial of the human rights center's leadership last week.
25.01.2023 Ales Bialiatski: Criminal proceedings are politically motivated, and Viasna has operated legally
What happened in court during the 13th hearing.
24.01.2023 EP Delegation for relations with Belarus condems sham trials of dissidents
The delegation released a statement on the politically motivated trials of democratic forces and civil society figures in Belarus.
20.01.2023 EU urges Minsk release all political prisoners including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialatski
The European Union remains gravely concerned with the dire and deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus under the Lukashenka regime.
20.01.2023 Hasty trial against Viasna continues: court reads case files at record speed
On Days 7, 8, and 9, the court examined thousands of pages. Meanwhile, it became known that the court was discouraging witnesses from attending the process.
18.01.2023 Viasna trial through the eyes of a spectator: Prosecution evidence is questionable and security measures unprecedented
Spectator at court and human rights activist Alena Masliukova share their impressions of the process.
16.01.2023 Trial against Viasna: Days 6 and 7
Witnesses refuse to come to court, Stefanovic claims that they were pressurized in pre-trial detention, and Labkovich asks for medics once again.
16.01.2023 Viasna’s lawyer Pavel Sapelka comments on the trial of his colleagues: "This is a crackdown on human rights defenders in the guise of justice"
Since 5 January, the Leninski District Court of Minsk has been housing proceedings in the Viasna Case brought against Ales Bialiatski, Valiantsin Stefanovich, and Uladzimir Labkovich. We have discussed the proceedings with our colleague, Viasna’s lawyer Pavel Sapelka.
13.01.2023 Testimonies by Secret Witnesses and Interrogation of Customs Officers: Fourth and Fifth Court Sessions in Viasna Case
On January 11 and 12, the trial of the Viasna case continued in the Lieninsky District Court of Minsk. The defendants Ales Bialiatski, the chairman of the Viasna Human Rights Center and a Nobel laureate, his deputy Valiantsin Stefanovic, and the coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign Uladzimir Labkovich are being tried according to Part 4 of Art. 228 (‘Smuggling by an organized group’) and Part 2 of Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (‘Financing of group actions that grossly violate public order’). The human rights defender Zmitser Salauyou, who had to leave Belarus due to criminal prosecution, is also being tried in absentia. The infamous Judge Maryna Zapasnik is considering the case, and Prosecutor Aliaksandr Karol supports the state prosecution. We will tell you what happened at the fourth and fifth court sessions in the high-profile case against the human rights defenders of Viasna.
