Ales Bialiatski, Belarus's top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Bialiatski, long a thorn in the side of the authoritarian president, sentenced for financing protestsUN alarmed by 'politically motivated charges' against activistsThe UN Human Rights Office said it was 'very disturbed' after a Belarus court sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison in Minsk on Friday.
Bialiatski and three other top figures of the Viasna human rights centre he founded were convicted of financing anti-government protests. They were arrested and jailed after massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a new term in office. Lukashenko — in office since 1994 — has suppressed opposition and cracked down on independent news media. The 2020 protests persisted for several months, the largest wave of protest to hit Belarus, and authorities took harsh action.The charges against Bialiatski and his colleagues were connected to Viasna's provision of money to political prisoners and helping pay their legal fees.
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