Ten years of imprisonment for a pro-democracy activist in Belarus
Ales Bialiatski, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Belarus, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in a court in Belarus
Mr. Bialiatski, a 60-year-old human rights activist, was present in court along with two other members of the Viasna human rights group
He was accused of financing a protest group, and his sentence is close to the maximum punishment for such a crime. Mr. Bialiatski has denied these allegations. During the unrest in Belarus in 2020, he provided legal and financial assistance to the protesters
Recently, Belarus has held multiple trials for political prisoners, journalists, and opposition figures, who have been sentenced to long prison terms
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled leader of the Belarusian opposition, described this trial as a shameful injustice
