Ales Bialiatski: Nobel Prize-winning activist sentenced to 10 years in jail

A tribunal successful Belarus has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize victor Ales Bialiatski to 10 years successful prison.

He was convicted of smuggling and financing "actions grossly violating nationalist order", the Viasna quality rights radical said.

Supporters of Mr Bialiatski, 60, accidental that the authoritarian authorities of Belarusian person Alexander Lukashenko is trying to soundlessness him.

Mr Bialiatski was 1 of 3 winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

Demonstrators were met with constabulary brutality and Lukashenko critics were regularly arrested and jailed during the demonstrations, which started successful 2020.

Mr Bialiatski was successful tribunal alongside 2 chap campaigners, Valentin Stefanovich and Vladimir Labkovich.

Mr Stefanovich was sentenced to 9 years successful prison, portion Mr Labkovich received 7 years, according to rights radical Viasna, which Mr Bialiatski founded successful 1996.

All 3 had earlier pleaded not guilty.

Belarus's exiled absorption person Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said the sentencing was "simply appalling".

"We indispensable bash everything to combat against this shameful injustice and escaped them," she said.