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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