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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

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Blogger Siarhei Tsikhanouski, stands back to camera inside a cage, in a court room in remand prison in Gomel, Belarus, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. A court in Belarus on Tuesday sentenced the husband of the country's opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 18 years in prison, six months after the trial began behind closed doors. The charges against Siarhei Tsikhanouski included organizing mass unrest and inciting hatred and have been widely seen as politically motivated. (Sergei Kholodilin/BelTA via AP)

Harsh prison terms for top democracy activists spark sharp Western criticism

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times