Belarus puts Nobel Prize-winning rights defender on trial

Byalyatski, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties in October, was arrested in 2021 along with two co-workers.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski, who co-founded the Viasna human rights group, sits inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus January 5, 2023.

(photo credit: VITALY PIVOVARCHIK/BELTA/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

ByREUTERS

JANUARY 5, 2023 15:40

Updated: JANUARY 5, 2023 17:09

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