Ales Bialiatski, last year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been sentenced by Belarus to 10 years in prison, on charges that rights advocates have dismissed as politically motivated.
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Rights Advocates Honored at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
The three recipients of this year’s Peace Prize emphasized the urgency of fighting today’s authoritarian states to secure human rights and democracy.
Who Is Ales Bialiatski, the Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate?
Ales Bialiatski was part of a dissident group that helped lay the groundwork in the late Soviet period for a movement calling for the independence of Belarus.