News on the topic: criminal case of Ales Bialiatski
26.09.2012 Greetings for Ales Bialiatski: Ireland, Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Sweden
Such human rights organizations as Front Line (Dublin), People in Peril Association (Bratislava), the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), Civil Rights Defenders (Sweden) and many others have taken part in the week of congratulations to Ales Bialiatski. Friends, we are grateful to all of you for your support and solidarity!
26.09.2012 Greetings to Ales Bialiatski: Center for Legal Transformation
Friends and colleagues from the Legal Transformation Center sent a self-made postcard to Ales Bialiatski :))
26.09.2012 Ales Bialiatski awarded US Department of State's 2011 Human Rights Defenders Prize
The wife of imprisoned Belarusian human rights defender Alies Bialiatski received the US Department of State's 2011 Human Rights Defenders Award on behalf of her husband in Warsaw on September 25.
25.09.2012 A week of action to congratulate Ales Bialiatski on his birthday
The imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski is likely to mark his birthday in prison – on September 25 he will be 50. The Human Rights Center “Viasna” suggests that everyone concerned join the birthday week actions.
24.09.2012 Belarusian state refuses cooperation with the UN Human Rights Committee in Bialiatski case as his detention conditions worsen
The Government of Belarus has responded to a complaint to the Human Rights Committee in the case of Ales Bialiatski, filed on his behalf by his wife, Natalia Pinchuk, and signed by Antoine Bernard, the Chief Executive Officer of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), of which Mr. Bialiatski is vice-president (link http://spring96.org/en/news/53618).
24.09.2012 Birthday greetings for Ales Bialiatski from colleagues and friends
We would like to thank all those who have joined Ales Bialiatski’s birthday week. Viasna keeps receiving cordial letters and photos with birthday greetings for Ales: from partners, colleagues, friends and other people who are concerned about the fate of the imprisoned human rights defender.
24.09.2012 Belarusian youth: “Ales! You Are Our Talisman!”
The imprisoned Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski shares his thoughts inspired by the letters of solidarity he keeps receiving in prison: ‘I have received quite a lot of letters from young people lately. And there are many postcards from Vilnius, from the School, too. It is really pleasant: it means that the ideas of human rights protection have resonated with the Belarusian youth, which used to be so nobly described in the poetry of Yanka Kupala.
22.09.2012 Colors of childhood for Ales Bialiatski
Ales Bialiatski often writes that he keeps receiving many postcards from various offices of Amnesty International, mainly from Great Britain and the Netherlands. One of his recent letters Ales told of motley fireworks of postcards from Dutch children, who painted his prison days in emotional colors.
21.09.2012 Ales Bialiatski’s defense lawyers exhaust all national judicial remedies
The Supreme Court has dismissed a supervisory appeal against a sentence to Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski pronounced by the Court of Pershamaiski District of Minsk on November 24, 2011, says Valiantsin Stefanovich, deputy chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, quoting a letter received from the prisoner.
14.09.2012 Ales Bialiatski seeks meeting with priest
The imprisoned Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski is still deprived of a possibility to have a meeting with a Roman Catholic priest, says Babruisk civil activist Siarhei Latsinski, quoting a letter received from the human rights defender.
03.09.2012 Brest: another picket ban left standing
The Brest City Executive Committee prohibited human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin, the head of the Brest regional organization of the United Civil Party Uladzimir Vuyek and the head of the Brest regional organization of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Ihar Maslouski to hold a picket in support of the imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatksi and all other political prisoners in Belarus on 4 August.
27.08.2012 Ales Bialiatski nominated for Europarlament's Prize
The imprisoned Belarusian activist has been nominated for the annual Sakharov Prize.
26.08.2012 Ales Bialiatski on agenda in the Élysée Palace
On 24 August, Mrs. Souhayr Belhassen, president of the International Federation for Human Rights, as well as Mr. Sidiki Kaba, FIDH honorary president, and Mr. Antoine Bernard , FIDH executive director, were received at the Élysée Palace by French President Mr. François Hollande.
22.08.2012 Ales Bialiatski spoken about in Thailand
Mr. Shiwei Ye, activist of the International Federation for Human Rights’ office in Bangkok, attended a meeting on the situation with human rights in Belarus to tell about the FIDH’s imprisoned vice-president Ales Bialiatski.
22.08.2012 Valiantsin Stefanovich: “There are various legal means to release political prisoners”
“Any interference with activities of judges in their administration of justice is inadmissible and is subject to prosecution under the law,” says a reply by the Presidential Administration issued following the petition for the release of Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski ahead of 4 August.
