Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in prison in Belarus

Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in prison in Belarus

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Category : International Published on: March 06 2023

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Ales Bialiatski, Belarus's top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Minsk.
Bialiatsky was sentenced for activities disturbing public order, financing and smuggling. The Leninsky District Court of the capital Minsk also imposed a fine of US$65,000 on 60-year-old Bialiatsky.
Bialiatsky is the head of the Vesna Human Rights Center. Along with Bialiatsky, representatives of the Vesna Human Rights Center, Valentin Stefanovich and Vladimir Labkovich, were also sentenced to 9-7 years.
Baliatsky was honored by the Nobel committee in October in Oslo along with the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.
Baliatsky, 60, has been an advocate of democracy in Belarus since the 1980s and formed Vyasna, which means "spring."
He had earlier also been jailed between 2011 and 2014 for tax evasion.

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