Alice Bialiatsky, last year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was arrested in 2020 in connection with widespread protests against dictator Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. Since then he has been detained without trial.
But now, he has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a regime-controlled court in Minsk, his organization Viasna announced according to TT. He and a number of his colleagues are accused of smuggling and financing organized “public order violations”.
Reuters wrote that he said earlier that he was tried for political reasons.
He has been imprisoned before
When Bialiatsky was awarded the Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee called him one of the initiators of the democratic movement in Belarus in the mid-1980s. He founded the human rights organization Viasna in 1996 and fought for decades for democracy in Belarus and against the regime.
He was imprisoned between 2011 and 2014 due to his involvement in the field of human rights.
The European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, called Alice Bialgatski’s trial a sham trial and condemned the prison sentence “in the strongest possible terms”.
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