Ales bialiatski biography of christopher

Ales Bialiatski is a prominent Belarusian human rights activist, who is currently being held in prison without trial.

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Mr Bialiatski, 60, is the founder of the country's Viasna Spring Human Rights Centre, which was set up in in response to a brutal crackdown of street protests by Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko. Viasna provided support for the jailed demonstrators and their families, documenting the use of torture against political prisoners by the Belarus authorities.

Mr Bialiatski - who has received numerous international human rights awards - spent three years in jail after being convicted on tax evasion charges he has always denied in He was released in He was detained again in following massive street protests over what opposition activists say were rigged elections that kept Mr Lukashenko in power the previous year.

Just before his arrest two years ago, Mr Bialiatski wrote on his Facebook page that the Belarusian authorities "are acting as a regime of occupation". The activist's wife, Natallia Pinchuk, said she was "overwhelmed with emotion". Mr Lukashenko - described in the West as Europe's last dictator - has ruled Belarus with an iron fist since He has been allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin, his close ally, to use Belarus's territory to launch deadly missile attacks on Ukraine, and to send Russian ground troops and armoury there there since Moscow's invasion began on 24 February.

CCL is one of Ukraine's leading human rights organisations.