Mensenrechtenactivist Ales Bialiatski zat jarenlang in een strafkamp in Belarus en werd vrijgelaten in ruil voor Amerikaanse sanctieverlichting. Hoe blij hij ook is met zijn vrijheid, die sancties lev...

Mensenrechtenactivist Ales Bialiatski zat jarenlang in een strafkamp in Belarus en werd vrijgelaten in ruil voor Amerikaanse sanctieverlichting. Hoe blij hij ook is met zijn vrijheid, die sancties lev...

Mensenrechtenactivist Ales Bialiatski zat jarenlang in een strafkamp in Belarus en werd vrijgelaten in ruil voor Amerikaanse sanctieverlichting. Hoe blij hij ook is met zijn vrijheid, die sancties lev...

Mensenrechtenactivist Ales Bialiatski zat jarenlang in een strafkamp in Belarus en werd vrijgelaten in ruil voor Amerikaanse sanctieverlichting. Hoe blij hij ook is met zijn vrijheid, die sancties lev...

<i>September marks nine months since Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and Uladzimir Labkovich were released from prison, and six months since the release of Marfa Rabkova, Valiantsin Stefano...

Nobel prize winner Ales Bialiatski and opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava among those freed after US talks with Alexander Lukashenko

AMSTERDAM — Ales Bialiatski spent decades documenting political repression in Belarus and defending its victims.

AMSTERDAM — Ales Bialiatski spent decades documenting political repression in Belarus and defending its victims.

AMSTERDAM — Ales Bialiatski spent decades documenting political repression in Belarus and defending its victims.

AMSTERDAM — Ales Bialiatski spent decades documenting political repression in Belarus and defending its victims. He would eventually become one of them — twice. The founder of the Viasna Human Rights Center, Bialiatski, 63, was first imprisoned in 2011 and spent nearly three years behind bars. A decade later, as President Alexander Lukashenko cracked down on society in response to mass protests against his disputed 2020 re-election, he was arrested again and sentenced to 10 years in prison alongside his Viasna colleagues. While in detention, Bialiatski learned that he had been awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Russia’s Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties. In late 2025, after serving nearly half of his sentence, Bialiatski was released alongside 122 other political prisoners in a deal that saw the U.S. lift sanctions on Belarusian potash producer Belaruskali. Yet at least 889 more political prisoners remained behind bars in Belarus as of last month, according to Viasna. In an interview with The Moscow Times, Bialiatski discussed life in Belarusian prisons, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize behind bars and the challenges facing Belarusian society both inside and outside the country. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The Moscow...

AMSTERDAM — Ales Bialiatski spent decades documenting political repression in Belarus and defending its victims.

AMSTERDAM — Ales Bialiatski spent decades documenting political repression in Belarus and defending its victims. He would eventually become one of them — twice.

AMSTERDAM — Ales Bialiatski spent decades documenting political repression in Belarus and defending its victims.

OSLO, Sept 8 - U.S. engagement with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has succeeded in freeing hundreds of political prisoners but has not changed the nature of his authoritarian rule, Belarus...

Nobel laureate and head of the Viasna Human Rights Center Ales Bialiatski commented on Andrzej Poczobut’s return to Belarus and recommended that other

U.S. engagement with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has succeeded in freeing ​hundreds of political prisoners but has not changed the nature of his authoritarian rule, Belarus' most respect...

U.S. engagement with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has succeeded in freeing ​hundreds of political prisoners but has not changed the nature of his authoritarian rule, Belarus' most respect...