“Svaboda without Ties” speaks with the chairman of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna”, former political prisoner, literary critic, writer, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 and 2013, Ales Bialiatski. Read More
Ales Bialiatski: I went to make jam and found myself in jail…
Human rights defender and recent political prisoner Ales Bialiatski told Narodnaya Volia about his foreign accounts, prison life, family, and why he does not want to run for president. Read More
Ales Bialiatski urges people to remain optimistic and support civil society in Belarus
August 4, the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society and Human Rights Movement in Belarus, timed to the anniversary of the arrest of a recent political prisoner human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, is held in different countries of the world. Read More
Ales Bialiatski’s The Quicksilver of Life presented in Minsk
The Quicksilver of Life is the first book by Chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” and vice-president of FIDH Ales Bialiatski, which was presented in Minsk on July 22 with the participation of the author. Read More
Belarus activist Bialiatsky gets early release from jail
A prominent human rights activist in Belarus, Ales Bialiatsky, has been released from prison, one-and-half years before completing his sentence. Read More
Nabeel Rajab wrote to Ales Bialiatski
Nabeel Rajab, who is also a member of FIDH wrote last month to Ales Bialiatski. Read More
Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski sends greetings to Baranavichy human rights defenders and civil society activists
Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski sent color postcards and congratulated Baranavichy human rights defenders Viachaslau Bolbat and Siarhei Housha and social activists Henadz Artsymenia, Anzhalika Kambalava and Viktar Syrytsa on the New Year and Christmas. Read More
Ales Bialiatski awarded the Honorary Citizenship of Paris
On 10th December, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë handed over a symbolic award to Adam Bialiatski, the son of the vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights and the head of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna”, imprisoned for political reasons. The ceremony was held in honour of FIDH at the City Hall of Paris. Read More
Why the letter from Bialiatski doesn’t contain any word from him?
Human rights defenders of “Viasna” don’t exclude that a letter from Ales Bialiatski coincidentally came without a message from himself. Read More
Human rights activists: “No permission for demonstration of solidarity with Ales Bialiatski in Belarus in the past two years”
Two years ago the Court of Pyershamayski District in Minsk sentenced Ales Bialiatski, the president of Viasna Human Rights Centre to 4,5 years in prison for alleged concealment of income on a large scale. Why was it not possibile to appeal against the judgement? What messages are coming from the penal colony where the prisoner is held? Read More