The wife of an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate says that the Belarusian authorities are depriving her husband of medicine. The 61-year-old pro-democracy activist, Ales Bialiatski, is serving a 10-year prison sentence.
FILE - Ales Bialiatski , the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, sits in a defendant’s cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. The wife of Bialiatskian, an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said Wednesday July 10, 2024 that the country’s authorities are depriving her husband of medicine as his health deteriorates. . He suffers from a number of serious chronic illnesses that have worsened during his three years behind bars, his family says.
a sixth term in office. The election was widely viewed as rigged by Western leaders and many Belarusians, triggering mass protests in the eastern European nation. Bialiatski was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 but that did not lead to an improvement in his detention conditions. There are 1,405 political prisoners behind bars in Belarus, according to Viasna. Human rights activists claim that Belarusian authorities are deliberately creatingfor many of them, depriving them of medical care, communication with loved ones and lawyers. At least six political prisoners have died behind bars.
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