Vyasna
Wjasna ( Belarusian Вясна , German spring ) is a human rights organization from Belarus based in Minsk . The organization was founded by Ales Byalyazki in 1996 to provide financial and legal aid to political prisoners and their families.
In 2005 Wjasna was awarded the Homo Homini Prize . The organization was temporarily banned and its founder, Ales Bjaljazki, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on November 24, 2011 for tax evasion. The European Union and the USA have criticized the process as "political staging".
She has been active again since 2015 and, among other things, observes the process of parliamentary and presidential elections in Belarus.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Regime puts human rights activists in a prison camp for four years , derstandard.at November 24, 2011.
- ^ Dissident condemned: Warsaw provided Minsk bank data to derstandard.at November 25, 2011