Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, sits in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday Jan. 5, 2023. A Belarusian court has sentenced Ales Bialiatski, Belarus' top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, to 10 years in prison. Bialiatski and three other top figures of the Viasna human rights center he founded were convicted of financing anti-government protests. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk/Bel…
March 3, 2023
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March 3, 2023 11:50 a.m.
Belarus court jails Nobel laureate Bialiatski for 10 years
In his final address to the court, Bialiatski urged the authorities to “stop the civil war in Belarus.”