Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski on February 13 gave his final statement at his trial on smuggling and tax-evasion charges, calling the case against him and three other defendants politically motivated and "unfair" and reiterating his innocence.
The prosecutor at a high-profile trial in Minsk has asked a court to convict and sentence Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski to 12 years in prison.
A court in Belarus has sentenced a man to two years in prison for making online comments about the country's authoritarian ruler, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, and his regime.