Human rights activist in Belarus, considered an opponent of Putin, imprisoned since July 2021
In prison for ten years, was convicted today from a court in Belarus the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialatski.
The news reported the Russian state news agency TASS and announced the non-governmental organization founded by the convict.
Bialatski, activist pro-democracy and founder of the human rights organization Viasna which provided legal and financial aid to protesters during the 2020 wave of protests in Belarus, was convicted of financing demonstrations and tax evasion.
He himself has said that he is being prosecuted for political reasons.
In a statement, Viasna clarifies that two co-defendants of Bialiatski, who have also been imprisoned, Valentin Stefanovic and Vladimir Lambkovic, they were condemned to prison terms of nine and seven years respectively.
Human rights organizations say there are about 1,500 political prisoners in Belarus, many of them arrested after a crackdown on protests in 2020 that erupted after President Alexander Lukashenko declared re-election in elections that the West and the Belarusian opposition say were marred by by forgery.
Bialatsky had been awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.
Source :Skai
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