As "Viasna" reports, the study of the written materials of the case ended at the trial.

It became known from them that back in September 2020, GUBAZIK began "operational development" of the head of the Brest branch of "Vyasny"

Vladimir Velichkin

.

The law enforcement officers tapped the phone of the human rights defender, and the contents of his conversations were announced at the court.

GUBAZIK also installed monitoring of the human rights defender, and later a video camera in the branch office.

  • 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 officers stated 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.