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March 3, 2023

Belarus Jails Dissidents Including Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski
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In Belarus, a court has sentenced pro-democracy activist Ales
Bialiatski, a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and 2020 Right Livelihood
laureate, to 10 years in prison. Bialiatski and three other people from
the Viasna Human Rights Centre were convicted of financing
anti-government protests and smuggling money, Belarus's government said.
He has been in jail since 2020, when wide-scale protests erupted against
the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko.


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