Ales Byalyatski

Ales Bialiatski was not included in the amnesty but was amnestied on its first day. The other political prisoners’ situation is more complicated.

The ex-political prisoner has announced it at the first press conference after his release today, on June 23.

The ex-political prisoner has explained whether he plead for mercy, believed in his release and why he had lived in his boxes for three years.

The ex-political prisoner returned to the capital from Babruisk by train at 3.15 p.m.

The political prisoner has phoned his wife Natallya Pinchuk. He has been released and is heading for Minsk from Babruisk by train, Radio Liberty repor

Natallya Pinchuk, the wife of imprisoned human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, says she puts no hopes on the mercy of the state.

The prize is awarded by the Sweden-based human rights center Civil Rights Defenders.

A court in Belarus rules to ban the book written by prominent human rights defender and political prisoner Ales Bialiatski.

The Belarus president tells a meeting of media editors in Minsk that political prisoner Ales Bialiatski could be amnestied.