Belarus: Leading Rights Defender Detained

Belarusian authorities should immediately free a leading human rights activist, Ales Belyatsky, whom police detained on August 4, 2011, in Minsk on politically motivated allegations of tax evasion.

(Moscow) – Belarusian authorities should immediately free a leading human rights activist, Ales Belyatsky, whom police detained on August 4, 2011, in Minsk on politically motivated allegations of tax evasion, Human Rights Watch said today.  The investigation against Belyatsky, who is head of the Belarusian human rights group Viasna and vice-president of the International Federation o

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