In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Viktaravich and the family name is Bialiatski.
Ales Bialiatski
Алесь Бяляцкі
Bialiatski in 2015
Born
(1962-09-25) 25 September 1962 (age 61)
Vyartsilya, Karelian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Republic of Karelia, Russia)
Other names
Aliaksandr Bialiatski[citation needed]
Education
Gomel State University (BA)
Occupation
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Employer
Viasna Human Rights Centre
Spouse
Natallia Pinchuk
Awards
Václav Havel Human Rights Prize (2013)
Right Livelihood Award (2020)
Nobel Peace Prize (2022)
Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski[a] (Belarusian: Алесь Віктаравіч Бяляцкі, romanized: Alieś Viktaravič Bialiacki; born 25 September 1962) is a Belarusian pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience known for his work with the Viasna Human Rights Centre. An activist for Belarusian independence and democracy since the early 1980s, Bialiatski is a founding member of Viasna and the Belarusian Popular Front, serving as leader of the latter from 1996 to 1999. He is also a member of the Coordination Council of the Belarusian opposition. He has been called "a pillar of the human rights movement in Eastern Europe" by The New York Times, and recognised as a prominent pro-democracy activist in Belarus.
Bialiatski's defence of human rights in Belarus has brought him numerous international accolades. In 2020, he won the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize". In 2022, Bialiatski was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, along with the organisations Memorial and Centre for Civil Liberties.
Bialiatski has been imprisoned twice; firstly from 2011 to 2014, and currently since 2021, on both occasions on charges of tax evasion. Bialiatski, as well as other human rights activists, have called the charges politically motivated.
On 3 March 2023, Bialiatski was sentenced in Minsk to ten years in prison for "cash smuggling" as well as "financing actions and groups that grossly violated public order." Human rights activists view the charges as fabricated in order to silence Bialiatski and his movement after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[1]
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Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski (Belarusian: Алесь Віктаравіч Бяляцкі, romanized: Alieś Viktaravič Bialiacki; born 25 September 1962) is a Belarusian pro-democracy...
In 2020, he shared the Right Livelihood Award with Nasrin Sotoudeh, AlesBialiatski and Lottie Cunningham Wren. In 2024, he was elected to the American...
rights and civil liberty. The recipients were the Belarusian activist AlesBialiatski (born 1962), the Russian human rights organisation Memorial (founded...
Valiantsin Stefanovich, Uladzimir Labkovich and AlesBialiatski. In 2022, Viasna founder Bialiatski was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the...
San Suu Kyi (Burma, 2006-2010), Liu Xiaobo (China, 2010-2017), and AlesBialiatski (Belaruse, 2023-Present) -- as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and...
of their awards: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, AlesBialiatski, and Narges Mohammadi. As of 2023[update], the Peace Prize has been...
partisans, including the 1985 film Come and See and the works of authors Ales Adamovich and Vasil Bykaŭ. The German occupation in 1941–1944 and war on...
Civil Liberties was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with AlesBialiatski and Russian organization Memorial. This was the first Nobel Prize awarded...
leaders have been declared political prisoners at different times: AlesBialiatski, Vice President of International Federation for Human Rights and head...
AlesBialiatski is a Belarusian pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience known for his work with the Viasna Human Rights Centre. Bialiatski has...
Bertozzi; Morten P. Meldal; Karl Barry Sharpless Svante Pääbo Annie Ernaux AlesBialiatski; Memorial; Centre for Civil Liberties Ben Bernanke; Douglas Diamond;...
2020: World Food Programme 2021: Maria Ressa / Dmitry Muratov 2022: AlesBialiatski / Memorial / Center for Civil Liberties 2023: Narges Mohammadi 2024:...
"The Nobel Peace Prize 2019". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2019-10-11. AlesBialiatski, Premio Nobel de la Paz: un revitalizador de la comunidad católica...
are injured in an explosion at petrol station in Creeslough. 2022 – AlesBialiatski, along with two organisations, Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties...
për të Drejtën Humanitare". www.hlc-rdc.org. Retrieved 2019-06-07. "AlesBialiatski: Civil Rights Defender of the Year". World Movement for Democracy....
Tsapkala, and political and civil society figures - Siarhei Tsikhanouski, AlesBialiatski, Sergei Dylevsky, Stsiapan Putsila and Mikola Statkevich. 2021 Alexei...
visit to the country, she met with the wife of political prisoner AlesBialiatski, Viasna representatives and independent journalists, and in a two-hour...
February 28, 2023. Retrieved December 29, 2022. Murray, Adrienne; Davis, Alys (November 2, 2022). "Denmark election: Centre-left bloc comes out on top"...
2020: World Food Programme 2021: Maria Ressa / Dmitry Muratov 2022: AlesBialiatski / Memorial / Center for Civil Liberties 2023: Narges Mohammadi 2024:...
accused Lukashenko of selling the country out to foreign actors, with AlesBialiatski referring to the former's government as a "regime of occupation" prior...
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