(Patria) - Belarusian court today sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Bialiatski, a pro-democracy activist and founder of the human rights organization Viasna (Spring), which provided legal and financial assistance to protesters during the wave of unrest in Belarus in 2020, was convicted of financing protests and tax evasion.
Human rights organizations say there are about 1,500 political prisoners in Belarus, many arrested after the crackdown on protests in 2020, which erupted after Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected in elections that the West and the Belarusian opposition said were rigged, Index.hr reports.
Bialiatski received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on human rights and democracy, sharing it with the Russian rights group Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, but was arrested in 2021 along with two other Viasna associates. He has been in prison ever since and is considered a political prisoner.
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