Nobel Peace Laureate Ales Byalyatski Transferred To Brutal Prison In Belarus, Wife Says

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski, who co-founded the Vyasna (Spring) human rights group, sits inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Minsk on January 5.

Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski, 60, has been transferred to a notoriously brutal prison in Belarus and hasn't been heard from in a month, his wife said on May 24. Natalia Pinchuk told AP that Byalyatski, who is serving a 10-year sentence, has been kept in an information blackout since his transfer to the N9 colony for repeat offenders in the city of Gorki. In March, a court convicted Bialiatski -- Belarus's top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize -- and three of his colleagues on charges of financing actions violating public order and smuggling, charges they deny. To read the original story by AP, click here.