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Nobel Prize-winning activist sentenced to 10 years in jail
BBC reported that a court in Belarus has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison.
He was arrested in 2021 and convicted of smuggling and financing “actions grossly violating public order”, the Viasna human rights group said.
Supporters of Bialiatski, 60, say the authoritarian regime of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is trying to silence him.
Bialiatski was one of three winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.