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Ales Bialiatski From Belarus Wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Ales Bialiatski From Belarus Wins Nobel Peace Prize
ALES BIALIATSKI
PHOTO: SIARHEI HRITS

Russian and Ukrainian human rights organizations also became laureates.

Belarusian human rights activist and political prisoner Ales Bialiatski became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

The prize was also awarded to the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.

Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski is the head of the Viasna Belarusian Human Rights Center.

On July 14, 2021, Ales Bialiatski, as well as his associates Valiantsin Stefanovich and Uladzimir Labkovich, were arrested in a “criminal case” when searches were carried out at the offices and apartments of the Viasna and its employees throughout Belarus and at the main office in Minsk. The political prisoner had spent in a pre-trial detention center more than a year.

Earlier, Lukashenka regime had already thrown Ales Bialiatski behind bars. On November 24, 2011, the human rights activist was sentenced to 4.5 years in a penal colony. Then the head of the Viasna Human Rights Center spent 1050 days behind bars (almost three years) and was released on June 21, 2014.

"Ales Bialiatski, one of the initiators of the democratic movement that emerged in Belarus in the mid-1980s. He devoted his whole life to the cause of democracy and peace in his country. Ales Bialiatski created the Viasna Human Rights Organization in 1996 in response to controversial constitutional changes that gave Lukashenka dictatorial powers," the Nobel Committee spokesperson said, introducing the laureates.

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious international awards. The Nobel Prizes are awarded in the five fields. In addition to promoting world peace, it is a prize for scientific achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, as well as literature.

Earlier, the Belarusian writer Sviatlana Aleksievich became the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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