Nobel Peace Prize Winner Transferred to Brutal Belarusian Prison

Ales Bialiatski, a Nobel peace prize laureate and Belarus's top human rights advocate, has been transferred to a notoriously brutal prison in Belarus and has not been heard from in a month. His wife is concerned about his health and urged the UN to intervene. Bialiatski is serving a 10-year sentence for charges of financing actions violating public order and smuggling. The harsh punishment of Bialiatski and three of his colleagues was a response to massive protests over a 2020 election that gave the authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, a further term in office.