A Belarusian court found Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, the country's most prominent human rights activist, guilty of smuggling and financing protests and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski inside a defendant's cage in a courtroom in Minsk, Belarus, in January 2023. Photo: Vitaly Pivocarchik/AFP via Getty Images
A Belarusian court found Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, the country's most prominent human rights activist, guilty of smuggling and financing protests and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.Human rights organizations and several European nations criticized the case as politically motivated.against Belarus' 2020 election, which kept authoritarian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in power.
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