Friday, August 5, 2011

Prominent Human Rights Activist Arrested in Belarus

Ales Belyatski, the Head of Human Rights Center “Viasna” (Spring), was arrested in Belarus and charged with tax evasion in connection with accounts of “Viasna” in foreign banks, specifically in Lithuania. According to other Belarusian human rights activists, those accounts accumulated donations which then were used to pay fees of Belarusian human rights lawyers and court fines imposed on street protesters in Belarus.

http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2011/08/05_a_3724117.shtml

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