Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski sentenced to ten years in prison
He has been convicted of smuggling and belonging to an organized group in a case involving the NGO Viasna. The Court assures that it has been proven that he evaded, together with 3 other activists, about 113,000 Belarusian rubles (about 43,000 euros).
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Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski. Photo: EFE
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The Leninski Court, in Minsk, has sentenced this Friday to the Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to ten years in prison for smuggling and belonging to an organized group in the framework of a case related to the NGO Viasna.
Along with him, three other activists have been sentenced; his deputy, Valiantsin Stefanovich, the coordinator of the campaign for “free elections”Vladimir Labkovich, and Dimitri Solovyov, according to information from the BelTA news agency.
Investigators have indicated that Bialiatski and his colleagues did not register the organization with the Treasury and did not present the relevant documents to the authorities. Thus, they were accused of evade about 113,000 Belarusian rubles (about 43,000 euros). However, all of them have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Bialiatski won the Nobel Prize in 2022 together with the Russian Memorial organizations and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and became the fourth person recognized with the award while incarcerated. The Government of Belarus criticized the Nobel Prize the same day and assured that recognitions like this make Alfred Nobel “turn in his grave.”
Source: Eitb
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