Council of Europe human rights prize goes to jailed...

  • 11 years ago
Jailed Belarussian political rights activist Ales Bialiatski has become the first person to receive the Council of Europe's Václav Havel Human Rights Prize.

The founder of Viasna Human Rights Centre in Minsk, Bialiatski is serving a four and a half year sentence in Belarus after being found guilty of tax evasion.

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