News on the topic: criminal case of Ales Bialiatski
15.08.2011 Send a letter of support to Ales Bialiatski!
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” would like to thank all those who have sent letters to Ales Bialiatski, who is currently in custody in Minsk pre-trial center.
15.08.2011 Baranavichy picketers face bureaucratic hurdles
Baranavichy activists are facing bureaucratic hurdles while appealing for holding pickets of support to Ales Bialiatski, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports quoting local human rights defender Siarhei Housha.
14.08.2011 Ales Bialiatski's Biography
Ales (Aliaksandr) Viktaravich Bialiatski was born on 25 September 1962 in the town of Värtsilä in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, to Belarusian parents who had left Belarus for better salaries.
12.08.2011 Ales Bialiatski: “So far, I see it all as something unreal”
“I have been examined by a doctor. I have no complaints. So far, I see it all as something unreal”, says Ales Bialiatski in his first letter received by his wife after he was arrested on 4 August.
12.08.2011 MEP Migalski: decision by Polish official undermines idea of solidarity
“The Belarusians are fighting for democracy just like the Poles did in the 20th century. The decision by a Polish official undermines the idea of solidarity”, Marek Migalski, member of the European Parliament and deputy chair of the EP’s delegation on Belarus-EU relations, said during a press-conference on Ales Bialiatski’s arrest.
12.08.2011 Ales Bialiatski officially charged
On 12 August, Ales Bialiatski, chair of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights, has been officially charged under Par. 2 Art. 243 of the Criminal Code ("concealment of profits on an especially large scale”).
08.08.2011 Let us send letters of support to Ales Bialiatski!
The human rights defender will be kept in custody at least till 14 August evening. The time in the pre-trial prison runs very slowly and turns into an examination by uncertainty. He passed greetings to all of us before going to the prison and called us to stay brave and cheerful. Friends, let’s support Ales by sending him good words these days!
08.08.2011 Belarusian human rights defenders start campaign on bailing out Mr. Bialiatski
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) has issued an appeal calling on sympathizers to apply for the release of human rights defender Ales Bialiatski against their guarantee that he would not flee from prosecution or obstruct the investigation or engage in criminal activities.
08.08.2011 Foreign diplomats express support to Viasna
On 5 August Michael Scanlan, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of the United States in Belarus, and Christopher Panico, First Secretary of The U.S. Embassy in Minsk, visited Minsk office of the Human Rights Center Viasna in connection with the arrest of Ales Bialiatski.
08.08.2011 Libereco demands release of Human Rights Defender Ales Bialiatski
Belarusian Human Rights Defender Ales Bialiatski was detained on 4 August 2011 in Minsk. Libereco – Partnership for Human Rights is calling for his immediate und unconditional release. The human rights organisation started an action „We all are Ales“ on facebook and calls on the international and Belarusian public to express their solidarity with the imprisonned human rights defender by supporting this facebook page and sending appeals to President Lukashenko.
08.08.2011 PACE Rapporteur on Belarus urges Belarusian authorities to stop harassment and intimidation towards civil society
Strasbourg, 08.08.2011 - Following last week's arrest of Ales Bialiatski, head of the NGO Viasna and Vice-President of the International Human Rights Federation, on charges of “tax evasion”, Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), the rapporteur on Belarus for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has urged the authorities in Belarus to guarantee the physical and psychological integrity of Mr Bialiatski and to put an end to all forms of harassment against him and other human rights defenders in the country.
08.08.2011 CIVICUS Urges Immediate Release of Belarusian Human Rights Defender, Aliaksandr Bialiatski
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation strongly condemns the arrest of Aliaksandr (Ales) Bialiatski, prominent Belarusian human rights defender, vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and head of the Minsk-based human rights centre Viasna.
08.08.2011 U.S. Embassy in Belarus condemns the detention of Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski
The August 4 detention of Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski is extremely troubling and represents another, unfortunate sign of Belarus’ self-isolation and further deviation from European standards and principles. In democratic societies, independent NGOs like Viasna – who the government continues to refuse to register – play a crucial role in the all important system of checks and balances. Recognizing this, societies pass laws creating conditions for the “third sector” to function and flourish. They do not try to marginalize civil society by denying registration and harassing and detaining NGO members.
08.08.2011 Östgruppen demands immediate release of Ales Bialiatski
The Swedish human rights organization Östgruppen demands the immediate release of the Chairperson of the Human Rights Center Viasna Ales Bialiatski.
08.08.2011 Secretariat of Union of Belarus Writers demands immediate release of Ales Bialiatski
Secretariat of the Union of Belarusian Writers' expresses a deep concern with the fate of a famous literary critic, writer and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, detained on 4 August by officers of the Department of Financial Investigations of the Republic of Belarus. We believe that the arrest of the member of our organization Ales Bialiatski is politically motivated and is connected to his human rights activities. We strongly demand the immediate release of Ales Bialiatski from custody and termination of criminal proceedings against him.
