Ales Bialiatski gets Civil Rights Defender of the Year award
The prize is awarded by the Sweden-based human rights center Civil Rights Defenders.
Ales Bialiatski defended human rights regardless of the danger, Swedish human rights activists noted.
The winner will get a diploma and a figurine. The human right organization Viasna that he founded will get €50 thousand euro as a prize.
Ales Byalyatski’s wife Natallya Pinchuk and colleague Tacciana Reviaka will be in Stockholm on April 4 to receive the prize on his behalf.
The Civil Rights Defender of the Year 2014 Award will be given out for the second time this year. Natasha Karash from Serbia got it for investigating war crimes in 2013.
