Belarus court sentences Nobel Peace Prize winner to 10 years in prison: Report

Belarus jails Nobel winner Bialiatski for 10 years

Moscow, Russia: Belarus on Friday (Saturday in Manila) handed a 10-year jail term to Nobel Prize winning activist Ales Bialiatski, drawing strong international condemnation.Bialiatski, who founded the authoritarian nation's most prominent rights group, has repeatedly run into trouble with security forces in Belarus, which is often described as "Europe's last dictatorship".He was in the dock with two allies after they were jailed in the aftermath…

Nobel Peace Prize winner sentenced to 10 years in prison by Belarusian court

A Nobel Peace Prize winner was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Belarus on Friday for what the human rights organization he leads is calling politically motivated charges.  A statement from the Viasna Human Rights Center, a human rights organization based in the capital Minsk, says Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to a decade in prison.…

Belarus jails Nobel winner Bialiatski for 10 years

Belarus handed a 10-year jail term to Nobel Prize winning activist Ales Bialiatski on Friday, drawing sweeping international condemnation.

Belarus throws a Nobel winner in prison

On Friday, a court in Belarus handed down a 10-year prison term to Ales Bialiatski, winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. Bialiatski, 60, is a founder of the Viasna (Spring) Human Rights Centre that has been monitoring presidential elections and aiding political prisoners since 1996. He was imprisoned for funding political protests.

Belarus jails Nobel winner Ales Bialiatski for 10 years

Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday by a court in his native Belarus which found him guilty of financing protests in a trial condemned by the US and the EU as a "sham".

Belarus jails Nobel winner Bialiatski for 10 years; EU, US protest

Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday by a court in his native Belarus which found him guilty of financing protests in a trial condemned by the United States and the European Union as a "sham."