A court in Minsk has sentenced Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski to 10 years in prison on smuggling and tax-evasion charges that rights defenders and Western governments have called politically motivated retribution by longtime authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The Vyasna (Spring) human rights center in Minsk said the Lenin district court on March […]
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