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Ales Bialiatski is released from prison!

Ales Bialiatski was released. Head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" called his wife Natalya Pinchuk and said that he is released and travels by train to Minsk from Bobruisk. Until the end of his life was still more than two years, but Bialiatski unexpectedly released under an amnesty.

In Minsk at the station "Cultural Institute" Ales Bialiatski got off the train to the applause of the crowd and shouts of "Long Live Belarus". Meet Ales Bialiatski on the station platform, "Institute of Culture" were about 30 people.

Ales Bialiatski said that some pressure was constant, so that he wrote a petition for clemency. But he refused. Ales Bialiatski answered questions from reporters, thanked greeters and headed home: "For three years, I have not seen my home and have not moved away from the prison".

Recall, the head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in November 2011. He was convicted of tax evasion. Human rights activist pleaded not guilty and said that all money received on his account, went to the human rights activities. EU countries, U.S. and international human rights organizations have recognized Bialiatski political prisoners and sentence him - politically motivated. They demanded that the Belarusian authorities to release human rights activist. In 2012 and 2013, Ales Bialiatski was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

According to Radio Liberty