(3 Mar 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Minsk – 3 June 2021
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1. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ales Bialiatski, leader of human rights organization Viasna:
"It doesn't matter what he was saying (in the first video released after journalist Raman Pratasevich's detention), what matters is how he looked. In the first video he looked beaten. He had bruises on the face and a bruise on the neck. He looked quite scared and it was clear he was saying what he was advised to say. It's clear that it wasn't his speech. Then for several days his lawyer wasn't allowed to see him. They had probably waited until the beating disappeared."
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2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ales Bialiatski, leader of human rights organization Viasna:
"I don't believe at all in the sincerity of his interview, of his statements"
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3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ales Bialiatski, leader of human rights organization Viasna:
"This practice is actively used by Belarusian security forces. After social activists of different levels in Minsk, in regions or even little known ones, are detained, beaten and scared they are forced to give testimonies, confess in what they haven't done."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Minsk - 2 November 2011
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4. STILL of Bialiatski in a defendants' cage during a court session

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Minsk - 21 June 2014
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5. STILL of Bialiatski being welcomed by his supporters at a railway terminal
STORYLINE:
A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced Ales Bialiatski, Belarus’ top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, to 10 years in prison.

Bialiatski and three other top figures of the Viasna human rights center he founded were convicted of financing anti-government protests.

They were arrested and jailed after massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a new term in office.

The charges against Bialiatski and his colleagues were connected to Viasna’s provision of money to political prisoners and helping pay their legal fees.

Lukashenko — in office since 1994 — has suppressed opposition and cracked down on independent news media.

The 2020 protests persisted for several months, the largest wave of protest to hit Belarus, and authorities took harsh action.

More than 35,000 people were arrested, and thousands were beaten by police.

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