Nobel Peace Prize winner handed 10-year prison sentence in Belarus
In the photos from the courtroom released Friday by Belarus’ state news agency Belta, Bialiatksi, clad in black clothes, looked wan, but calm.Ukraine war: Nobel Peace Prize winners denounce Russia’s invasionIn his final address to the court, he urged the authorities to “stop the civil war in Belarus.
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya denounced the court verdict on Friday as “appalling.” “We must do everything to fight against this shameful injustice free them,” Tsikhaouskaya wrote in a tweet. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee, a non-governmental organization working to ensure that human rights are respected in practice, said that it was “shocked by the cynicism behind the sentences that were just issued to our Belarusian friends in Minsk.”
”The trial shows how Lukashenka’s regime punishes our colleagues, human rights defenders, for standing up against the oppression and injustice,“ Secretary General Berit Lindeman said in a statement.
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