Belarus: Rights Activists Face Eviction
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Version 0 of 1. The government has announced that it will evict one of the country’s most prominent human rights organizations from the offices it has occupied for 12 years, the group said Monday. Government investigators said in a letter to the group, the Vyasna Human Rights Center, that they would confiscate its main office because it was the property of the organization’s leader, Ales Belyatsky, who was sentenced to prison for tax evasion last year. Mr. Belyatsky says that he is not guilty; Western governments have criticized his prosecution as politically motivated. |