US EditionFreed Belarus Dissident Bialiatski Vows to Keep Resisting Regime From Exile
Ales Bialiatski was among 123 political prisoners freed in a US-brokered swap; 1,110 political prisoners remain in Belarus, rights group Viasna says.
- Only hours earlier, Ales Bialiatski was woken at 4:00 am, blindfolded and driven into forced exile in Lithuania as one of 123 political prisoners freed in a US-brokered deal.
- Bialiatski, who had been a dissident for decades and was among political prisoners freed in a US-brokered deal, was targeted by Minsk's crackdown after the 2020 protests.
- The Nobel Prize awarded in 2022 helped Ales Bialiatski during nearly three years of incommunicado detention at Prison Colony Number 9 in Gorki with only censored TV and no letters.
- Bialiatski vowed not to put his hands down and to keep resisting from abroad, urging the European Union to negotiate while warning the Belarusian regime still arrests others.
- Viasna reports there are 1,110 political prisoners, highlighting the broader scale of detentions beyond recent releases and echoing Stalin-era repression in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Dissident says Nobel Prize 'saved' him
Hours after being freed from a Belarusian prison under a US deal, dissident Ales Bialiatski vowed to continue his fight for democracy from exile and told AFP his Nobel Peace Prize saved him from the worst treatment in prison. Imprisoned in 2021 and kept largely in isolation since 2023, Bialiatski also called on the EU to enter talks with the Minsk regime to free hundreds of other political prisoners. Bialiatski -- who spent decades documenting r…
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Freed Belarus dissident Bialiatski vows to keep resisting regime from exile
Ales Bialiatski struggles to believe he is a free man and that he can -- after years in prison largely barred from outside contact -- speak to his wife in person.
The Nobel Committee called the release of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Alessa Bialatski's long-awaited moment and called on the Belarusian authorities to release all political prisoners in the country.
Dictator Alexander Lukashenko releases 123 political prisoners, among them Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Byaljatsky. The joy of this is great among the oppositionists, but ambivalent - because the Belarusian leader pursues his very own calculation.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and the key figure of the opposition Maria Kolesnikova return free
Opponents Maria Kolesnikova and Viktor Babariko were also released from prison (NGO). On the same day Trump's emissary announced the lifting of US sanctions on potassium.
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