Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in jail
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A Belarus court on Friday convicted Ales Bialiatski, a renowned human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, to ten years in jail for economically financing protests and other crimes in a case that many claimed had political motives. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, exiled Belarusian opposition leader, said Bialiatski and many other activists sentenced in the same case had been convicted unfairly.
