{"id":130739,"date":"2023-03-06T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=130739"},"modified":"2023-03-06T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:16:30","slug":"ales-bialiatski-nobel-laureate-sentenced-prison-for-10-years-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ales-bialiatski-nobel-laureate-sentenced-prison-for-10-years-in-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ales Bialiatski, Nobel laureate sentenced prison for 10 years in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ales Bialiatski sentenced prison for 10 years:<\/strong> Ales Bialiatski, a leading human rights defender in Belarus and a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, was sentenced to ten years in prison in Minsk, Belarus&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-march-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ales Bialiatski sentenced prison: Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ales Bialiatski and three other key members of the Viasna human rights organisation he created were found guilty of funding rallies against the government.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After widespread protests over a 2020 election that delivered autocratic President Aleksandr Lukashenko a second term in office, they were detained and imprisoned.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Since taking government in 1994, Lukashenko has repressed dissent and cracked down on independent media.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The strongest wave of protests in Belarus history raged on for several months as part of the 2020 movement, and the government reacted harshly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At than 35,000 individuals were detained, and police beat thousands of them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The accusations against Bialiatski and his associates stemmed from Viasna giving money to political prisoners and supporting their legal expenses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nobel committee honoured Bialiatski in Oslo in October, along with the Russian and Ukrainian human rights organisations Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties. Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, tried to fly to Minsk to support Bialiatski, but was refused boarding because Belarus had prohibited him from entering the country, according to airline representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ales Bialiatski sentenced prison for 10 years: Ales Bialiatski, a leading human rights defender in Belarus and a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, was sentenced to ten years in prison in Minsk, Belarus&#8217;s capital. 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