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 of historic demonstrations against the disputed re-election of the country’s strongman President Alexander Lukashenko in 2020.The 60-year-old and his associates had been convicted of smuggling and financing “activities that grossly violate public order…
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