nobel peace prize winner ales bialiatski has been sentenced to ten years in prison in belarus. a human rights group which helped protesters during a wave of unrest in 2020. he was been charged with smuggling money into belarus and financing protests, which he denies. two more activists got nine and seven years in jail. anais marin is the united nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in belarus. this verdict comes as little surprise, the prosecutor asked for 12 years for ales bialiatski, nonetheless he alongside three other members of the organisation received very long prison sentences. 0ne very long prison sentences. one of them eight years and he was tried in censure, he has been running away from the country. --ab running away from the country. ——ab censure. belarus is made to implement what they say are against fundamental human rights in belarus. this is bbc news, the headlines: a probe into lockdown parties at downing street suggests the former british prime minister borisjohnson should have known rules were being broken. in ukraine, the head of russia's

nobel peace prize winner ales bialiatski has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in belarus.human rights group which helped protesters during a wave of unrest in 2020. he has been charged with smuggling money into belarus and financing protests, which he denies. two more activists got nine and seven years in jail. here's the un's special reporter on the human rights situation in belarus. this verdict comes as little surprise, the prosecutor had in fact required 12 years in a penal colony for ales bialiatski, nonetheless he alongside three other members of viasna human rights defender organisation received very long prison sentences. one of them eight years and he was tried in absentia, he has been running away from the country. this all reveals and illustrates one more time that the justice system in belarus is made to implement what i see, as special rapporteur, as vengeance against civil society, against ngos which have been relentlessly fighting for the respect of fundamental human rights in belarus. scientists from the uk and australia have discovered a new disease in wil

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nobel peace prize winner, ales bialiatski, got sentenced to ten years in prison in belarus.testers during a wave of unrest in belarus in 2020. he was charged with smuggling money into belarus and financing protests. bialiatski denies that. two more activists got nine and seven years in jail. belarus's exiled opposition leader, svetlana tikhanovskaya, described the trial as a shameful injustice. bbc spoke earlier to anais marin is the united nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in belarus. here is her reaction on the verdict and the un's plans on the next steps. this further comes as little surprise. the prosecutors had in fact required 12 years. nonetheless, he alongside three other members of the human rights defenders organisation it received very long prison sentence. 0ne organisation it received very long prison sentence. one of them eight years and he was tried in absentia, he's been running away from the country. he's been running away from the country. this all reveals and illustrates one more time that the justice system in belarus is made to impl

nobel laureate ales bialiatski got 10 years for "actions grossly violating the public order.”uskaya, belarusian opposition leader: repressions in our country are intensified. on average, about 17 people are being detained every day, lawyers, journalists, activists. people are given years and years in prisons for challenging the regime and they are opposing the war in ukraine. nick: no one symbolizes belaru'' hope for democracy better than svitlana tsikhanouskaya. she's a former english teacher and full-time mom who ran for president after her husband, sergei tikhanovsky, was arrested as he began his campaign for president in 2020. tsikhanouskaya was allowed to run herself, and the opposition says she defeated strongman alexander lukashenko. he has led the country for 30 years and claimed he won 80% of the 2020 election that the international community called stolen. after, the country erupted in unprecedented protests. but lukashenko and his russian allies responded with force, widespread torture and arrests. today, leading opposition figures remain detained, and others, inclu

in belarus, a court has sentenced pro-democracy activist ales bialiatski, a 2022 nobel peace prize laureate, to 10 years in priso biiatski and three other people from the viasna human rights centre were convicted with financing anti-government protests and smuggling money. he has been in jail since 2020 when wide-scale protests erupted against the reelection of president alexander lukashenko. in cambodia, opposition leader kem sokha has been sentenced to 27 years of house arrest. the former leader of the now-banned cambodian national rescue party was accused of conspiracy with a foreign power, treason, and encouraging a revolution. this comes amid a heightened crackdown in cambodia on opposition and the media. israeli forces in the occupied west bank shot and killed a 15-year-old palestinian boy thursday during a raid near the city of qalqilya. the palestinian ministry of health reports the teen, muhammad nidal salim, was fatally shot in the back while two other palestinians were wounded, including one person who was struck in the chest by gunfire. israel's army said soldiers were respondin

nobel peace prize winner, ales bialiatski, got sentenced to ten years in prison in belarus.osition leader, svetlana tikhanovskaya, described the trial as a shameful injustice. bbc spoke earlier to anais marin, the united nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in belarus. here is her reaction on the verdict and the un's plans on the next steps. this all reveals and illustrates one more time that the justice system in belarus is made to implement what i see as vengeance against civil society, against ngos which have been relentlessly fighting for the respect of fundamental human rights in belarus. in my capacity as special rapporteur, and alongside other special procedures, mandate—holders of the un human rights council, we've been already issuing several communications on this case alerting the government of belarus, who's the main addressee of our recommendations, about the numerous violations international human rights standards and conventions that belarus is even a party of. with this and other significant human rights violations, that have been multiply