Belarus jails Nobel winner Bialiatski for 10 years; EU, US protest

The 60-year-old, who was arrested in 2021, and three co-defendants were charged with financing protests and smuggling money.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday by a court in his native Belarus which found him guilty of financing protests in a trial condemned by the United States and the European Union as a “sham”.