News on the topic: criminal case of Ales Bialiatski
23.05.2012 Court officials distrain property at Ales Bialiatski’s country house
Court officials have distrained the property at Ales Bialiatski’s country house in the town of Rakau, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, quoting the activist’s wife Natallia Pinchuk.
19.05.2012 Ales Bialiatski wins the 2011 Human Rights Defenders Award
The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that Ales Bialiatski of Belarus and Uganda’s Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law are the joint winners of the 2011 Human Rights Defenders Award. This award recognizes individuals or non-governmental organizations that show exceptional valor and leadership in advocating the protection of human rights and democracy in the face of government repression.
04.05.2012 Ales Bialiatski's rights to correspodence unlawfully restricted
In the middle of April human rights defender Anastasiya Loika sent two letters of A4 format to Ales Bialiatski, the head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" who is serving a prison term in corrective colony #2 in Babruisk.
02.05.2012 Ales Bialiatski may not be amnestied because of new financial claims
Ales Bialiatski, a prominent human rights activist and head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna, reports about deterioration in confinement conditions in prison due to new claims of the Pershamaiski district court of Minsk.
30.04.2012 Russian President’s Human Rights Council urges Medvedev to aid Ales Bialiatski’s release
“We ask you to use all of your power to foster the release of our colleague Ales Bialiatski held in detention in Belarus,” says an appeal passed to Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev in his meeting with the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights on 28 April.
25.04.2012 European Parliament Vice-President's letter to Ales Bialiatski: "I write to assure you of the European Parliament's determination to have you released"
The EU "sanctions will continue as long as the Belarusian regime denies its citizens democracy and abuses their human rights," says Edward McMillan Scott, Vice-President of the European Parliament for Democracy & Human Rights, in his letter to the imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski dated 19 April.
20.04.2012 Ales Bialiatski ‘flayed’ again: No chance for early release
The Court of Pershamaiski District of Minsk has ruled in a civil lawsuit to collect from Ales Bialiatski over 140 million rubles of fine (nearly 12,700 Euro) for alleged late payment of arrears. Meanwhile, the amount ordered by the sentence was paid by the human rights defender in January and indexed for inflation, after which it more than doubled.
19.04.2012 The Observatory refers the case of Mr. Ales Bialiatski to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
On April 2, 2012, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), submitted the case of Mr. Ales Bialiatski to the United Nations (UN) Working group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD).
18.04.2012 Brest court upholds picket ban
Brest Leninski District Court has upheld a ban on a picket applied for by local human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin.
18.04.2012 Valiantsin Stefanovich: there are legal grounds for Ales Bialiatski’s release without petition for pardon
Legal acts provide for several possible ways to obtain the release of Ales Bialiatski, says Viasna deputy chairman Valiantsin Stefanovich in his interview with the Nasha Niva weekly. It is possible even if he does not sign a petition for pardon, says the human rights defender.
06.04.2012 Ales Bialiatski: "Basic unit became 100,000 rubles and prisoners may be the only people who are glad about it"
In one of his first letters from a working brigade of the Babruisk colony the human rights defender describes new circumstances, to which he is trying to adapt. He writes as usual, with subtle self-irony and the ability to note funny situations and characters in any life circumstances.
28.03.2012 Ales Bialiatski enrolled in sewing brigade in prison
The head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski has sent his first letter after a two week's silence.
26.03.2012 Ales Bialiatski wins Norwegian ‘Freedom of Expression’ award
The imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski has been awarded the Freedom of Expression award by the Norwegian Authors´ Union (“Den norske Forfatterforening”).
12.03.2012 Belarusian authorities make oral statement on Bialiatski's case at UN Human Rights Council
On 5 March the discussion of the yearly report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders took place at the UN Human Rights Council.
07.03.2012 What are Ales Bialiatski’s perspectives in penal colony?
Political prisoner, human rights defender Ales Bialiatski sent his friends and relatives first postcards from the Babruisk penal colony where he has been kept since 28 February. He was placed in the quarantine for two weeks.
