News on the topic: criminal case of Ales Bialiatski
14.01.2013 Ales Bialiatski: "I am very grateful to the people who write me!"
In his letters of the New Year period Ales Bialiatski says that he "has been totally covered with the avalanche of letters and postcards when congratulations were added to the action of support". Sometimes he received about 500 letters a day from Belarus and abroad.
14.01.2013 Orsha coalition of democratic forces got a letter from Ales Bialiatski
The Orsha coalition of democratic forces sent greeting letters to the 12 Belarusian political prisoners on the eve of the New Year holidays. The coalition participants wished all convicts spiritual strength, tenacity and faith in a better future for the new Belarus. The letter was signed by representatives of nine political parties and initiatives.
14.01.2013 Solidarity action with Bialiatski in Salihorsk (photo)
Last weekend the civil activists from Salihorsk expressed their solidarity with the imprisoned human rights defender Ales Bialiatski. The action was initiated by the local representatives of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the editorial office of the saligorsk.org website.
14.01.2013 Ales Bialiatski wishes to Slonim activists to build the Belarusian home together
On the New Year eve members of the Slonim association of democratic forces sent greeting postcards to all political prisoners. Recently they have received an answer from Ales Bialiatski.
09.01.2013 Navapolatsk human rights defenders hold action in support of Hrodna colleagues (photo)
The Navapolatsk activists held an action of solidarity with the Hrodna human rights defenders Uladzimir Khilmanovich, Viktar Sazonau and Raman Yurhel who had been fined for posting to the web a photo of themselves with portraits of Ales Bialiatski and brochures of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
08.01.2013 Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it found that the detention of Mr. Ales Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Viasna” and FIDH Vice-President, was arbitrary.
08.01.2013 Homel human rights defenders ask to be punished for photos on the web
The Homel human rights defenders Anatol Paplauny and Leanid Sudalenka ask the head of the Chyhunachny District Police Department of Homel Henadz Khmaryk to give them administrative charges for the photo in the Internet, in which they express solidarity with their colleague, political prisoner Ales Bialiatski, and congratulate him on the jubilee.
08.01.2013 Film about Ales Bialiatski and "Viasna" activities issued at "BelSat" TV channel
The central characters of the documentary are the head of the HRC "Viasna", his wife Natallia Pinchuk and the teacher Natallia Ilyinich, who was dismissed from work for political reasons, and whom the human rights defenders assisted in the protection of her rights.
04.01.2013 Premiere of documentary about Ales Bialiatski at "BelSat" TV channel
You can see the "Viasna" documentary at 6.10 p.m. on 6 January, at the satellite TV channel "BelSat".
02.01.2013 Hrodna human rights defenders are summonsed to court
The Hrodna human rights defender Uladzimir Khilmanovich received a summons to the Leninski District Court of Hrodna. On 5 January he will be tried there for alleged participation in an unauthorized picket.
29.12.2012 Ales Bialiatski: "This international support is a message to all Belarusians"
The fact that the political prisoner remains in Babruisk-based penal colony is confirmed by the letters he continues sending – of 18th, 20th, 24th December. Ales says that almost all of his free time is occupied by letters. Letters and postcards with words of support coming in large numbers – sometimes more than a hundred of them comes in just a day.
24.12.2012 Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning Ales Bialiatski's case
The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Human Rights Council reports on adopting on August 31, 2012 its Opinions concerning the case of Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski, following a respond sent by the Belarusian Government to the Group's Urgent Appeal.
21.12.2012 Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it found that the detention of Mr. Ales Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Viasna” and FIDH Vice-President, was arbitrary, “being in contravention of article 20, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights [UDHR] and article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” (ICCPR).
21.12.2012 Ales Bialiatski visited by wife in prison
On 20 December, Mrs. Natallia Pinchuk, the wife of political prisoner Ales Bialiatski, visited him at the Babruisk-based penal colony No. 2.
07.12.2012 33 rights groups call for release of Ales Bialiatski
The 33 member organizations of the Civic Solidarity Platform have urged the Belarusian authorities to release human rights defender Ales Bialiatski and allow the Human rights Center “Viasna” to continue its operations, BelaPAN said.
