News on the topic: criminal case of Ales Bialiatski
22.08.2011 Investigation not to vary Bialiatski’s preventive measure
Svetlahorsk resident Telman Masliukou has received a reply to his petition to vary the preventive measure imposed on Ales Bialiatski.
19.08.2011 Homel authorities ban pickets of support to Ales Bialiatski, too
Homel city executive committee has banned a number of pickets of support to Ales Bialiatski scheduled for 22 August.
19.08.2011 Norwegian Helsinki Committee: “Ales! We will fight for you!”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” keeps receiving letters of support to Ales Bialiatski. NGO activists and ordinary people from Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and other countries are sending postcards and personal guarantees for the release of Viasna’s leader.
18.08.2011 Polish Sejm discussed Byalyatski’s case
On August 17 at 9 p.m. Minsk time the Polish parliament a joint meeting of International Affairs and Foreign Ties commissions was held.
18.08.2011 Solidranosc founders: Bialiatski is the Polish government’s prisoner of conscience
“We will not allow the country of uprisings and conspiracy, the country of democratic opposition and Solidarnosc through the ignorance of a government body throwing into prison the people who are fighting for freedom”, says an open letter by six co-founders of the Solidarnosc Polish independent trade union, as quoted by the Gazeta Wyborcza major newspaper.
17.08.2011 HR defender to be interrogated in Bialiatski’s case
On 17 August, human rights defender Zmitser Salauyeu received a phone call from an unknown person who presented herself as investigator of the Financial Investigation Department Mrs. Kasynkina and requested that Mr. Salauyeu turned up for questioning.
17.08.2011 Minsk court turns down appeal against Bialiatski’s pre-trial detention
On 16 August, Minsk Pershamaiski District Court dismissed a complaint appealing the pre-trial restrictions of personal liberty imposed on Viasna’s leader Ales Bialiatski following his arrest on 4 August.
17.08.2011 Libereco leader signs petition for Ales Bialiatski
Lars Bünger, chairman of the Swiss-based Libereco – Partnership for Human Rights, has joined the civil campaign for the release of Viasna’s leader Ales Bialiatski by signing a personal guarantee for the Belarusian human rights defender.
16.08.2011 Poland fires several prosecuting officials blamed for Bialiatski’s arrest
A number of prosecuting officials linked to the disclosure of Ales Bialiatski’s bank account details have been fired, Polish Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet said at a special press-conference in Warsaw, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
16.08.2011 Lithuanian Prime Minister apologizes to Bialiatski and his family
Andrius Kubilius, Prime Minister of the Lithuanian Republic, apologized for the “misunderstanding” that resulted in the arrest of Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, the BelaPAN news agency reports, quoting www.delfi.lt.
16.08.2011 Baranavichy authorities ban picket of support to Bialiatski
Baranavichy town executive committee has banned a picket of support to Ales Bialiatski scheduled for 22 August, Radio Racyja reports.
15.08.2011 Civil activists gather some 400 guarantees for release of Ales Bialiatski
As of 15 August, some 400 personal guarantees for the release of Ales Bialiatski have been gathered by human rights activists across Belarus.
15.08.2011 Azerbaijan civil society demands to release Bialiatski
Representatives of 23 Azerbaijani civil society groups have addressed Belarusian President Lukashenka with an open letter demanding to get the criminal case of Ales Bialiatski under his personal control and take every measure possible to promptly release the prominent Belarusian human rights defender.
15.08.2011 Ales Bialiatski’s detention extended by 2 months
The detention of Ales Bialiatski has been extended by two months after he was officially charged under Par. 2 Art. 243 of the Criminal Code ("concealment of profits on an especially large scale”) on 12 August.
15.08.2011 Statement of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Belarus
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic expresses its deepest concern over the yesterday’s arrest of Aliaksandr Bialiatski, President of Human Rights Center Viasna and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights.
