September 25 prominent Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski , who is serving a sentence in a penal colony in Bobruisk , is celebrating its 51 th anniversary. Vitebsk fellow human rights activists sent to his address their congratulations and wished him a speedy release.

Head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna ", vice - president of the International Federation for Human Rights Ales Bialiatski is in custody since August 4, 2011 . He was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison under part 2 of article 243 of the Penal Code for alleged concealment of income on a large scale . Grounds for initiating against Ales Bialiatski, a criminal case was the information about his bank accounts, transferred the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice and the General Prosecutor's Office of Poland.

On the foreign accounts of Ales Bialiatski money came from human rights organizations , these funds were used to help the repressed in Belarus and their families. Receive money for these purposes by Belarusian banks was not possible , as the human rights center " Viasna" Ales Bialiatski headed , in 2003, was denied state registration, and to restore the legal status , despite numerous attempts , the organization has not yet succeeded.

International human rights organizations Ales Bialiatski declared a prisoner of conscience.