Bialiatski: Veteran rights defender in authoritarian Belarus
Final yr, Ales Bilyatsky, the pinnacle of the jailed Belarus rights group Vyasna, gained the Nobel Peace Prize within the wake of historic demonstrations and a grim crackdown in his former Soviet nation. The 60-year-old was arrested final July on tax evasion fees, a transfer that critics of Belarusian powerhouse Alexander Lukashenko noticed as a … Read more
