During the court hearings, the human rights center "Viasny" learned that

Ales Bialiatski

,

Valyantsin Stefanovich

,

Vladysz

Labkovych are not on preventive records in the pretrial detention center .

The chairman of "Viasna" Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has one penalty in the form of a reprimand.

It is not known what he was punished for.

According to the description from pre-trial detention center No. 1, which was sent to the court, "Ales Bialiatskyi needs to be monitored by employees."

  • The trial of the criminal case against the Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski and his fellow human rights defenders Vladimer Labkovich and Valentin Stefanovych continues in the court of the Leninsky district of Minsk.

    Dmitriy Soloyev, a villager, is also being tried in absentia.

  • Ales Bialiatski, Uladz Labkovich and Valyantsin Stefanovich have been behind bars since July 14, 2021.

    That's 553 days.

  • There are 283 volumes in the criminal case.

    These are record numbers for political affairs in Belarus.

  • The accused were given a month to familiarize themselves with the criminal case.

    Ales Bialiatski stated that he did not have time to familiarize himself with the 70 volumes of the case.

    But the court found that a month was enough for that.

  • There are about 100 witnesses in the case.

  • 120 searches were carried out as part of the criminal case against the residents of Vesnost.

  • During one session, the court heard 27 volumes of the criminal case.

  • Customs officials said that allegedly from 2011 to 2021, "2 million dollars were imported into Belarus in the interests of Viasna".

    Criminal liability for the importation of large amounts of cash without declaration was introduced in Belarus only in 2016, so the amount of about 250,000 dollars for this period appears in the criminal case.

    "It is not known where such numbers came from and how the prosecution will confirm them," Viasna wrote.

  • Human rights defenders face up to 12 years in prison.

Who is Ales Bialiatski

Belarusian human rights defender, public figure, literary critic.

The founder and head of the human rights center "Viasna", a political prisoner.

  • He was born on September 25, 1962 in the urban settlement of Vartsil in the Karelian ASSR, where his Belarusian parents worked at the time.

    In 1965, the family returned to Belarus, to Svetlagorsk.

  • In 1984, Ales graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Gomel University, worked as a teacher in the Lelchytsky District.

  • He served in the Soviet army in the Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation as a mechanic-driver of an armored tractor.

  • In 1986–1989, he was the founder of the Association of Young Writers "Tuteyshiya".

  • In 1989, he graduated from the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

  • From 1989 to 1998, he worked as the director of the Maxim Bogdanovich Literary Museum.

  • In 1991–1996, he was a deputy of the Minsk City Council of Deputies.

  • In 1996, he founded the human rights organization "Viasna"

  • On August 4, 2011, he was detained - he was accused of "tax evasion".

    On November 23, he was sentenced to 4.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony with confiscation of property.

  • In 2012, the Radio Svaboda Library published Valer Kalinowski's book "The Bialiatski Affair".

  • On June 21, 2014, he was released early from the Bobrui colony.

  • During his 25 years of activity, he was awarded numerous prizes and awards: the Swedish Per Anger Prize, the Andrei Sakharov Freedom Prize, the Homo Homini Prize, presented by Vaclav Havel, the Norwegian Writers' Union Prize "For Freedom of Speech", the US State Department Prize, the Lech Walesa Prize , the Petra Kelly Award, the Vaclav Havel Award from PARE, the "For Human Rights and the Rule of Law" award, and others.

  • He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times.

  • Ales is the author of the books "Jogs along the shore of Lake Geneva", "Enlightened by Belarus", "Cold wing of the homeland", "Mercury silver of life", "Fight with yourself", "Prison notebooks" (Minsk, 2018, "Spring").

  • On July 14, 2021, he was detained on a criminal charge, his home and the Viasna office were searched.

  • Now he is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 - on "Voladarka" - together with his colleagues: human rights defenders Valyantsin Stefanovych and Vladimir Labkovich.

  • In total, he was prosecuted more than 20 times for his active social and human rights activities.

    Recognized as a political prisoner.

  • On October 7, 2022, Ales Bialiatsky was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.