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FILE – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a defendants' cage at a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)

An imprisoned Nobel laureate underscores human rights abuses in Belarus

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

FILE - Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, sits in a defendant's cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. The wife of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and activist Ales Bialiatski says he has been transferred to solitary confinement at his prison in Belarus. Natalia Pinchuk told The Associated Press that prison authorities have toughened conditions for the 61-year-old despite his chronic illnesses. Bialiatski is serving a 10-year sentence. He is Belarus' top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)

Nobel peace laureate Bialiatski has been put in solitary confinement in Belarus, his wife says

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press