The UN is seriously concerned about the course of the trial of the Belarusian laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World Ales Belyatsky, the voice of America reports.
It was previously reported that Belyutsky appeared on January 5 before the court in Minsk. He faces up to 12 years in prison. Two other representatives of his organization, the human rights center “Vesna”, are also under court, and they may be threatened with long prison deadlines.
According to the representative of the UN Human Rights, Jeremy Lawrence, “three human rights activists are one of hundreds of detained after … anti-government protests in 2020. We are calling for the removal of accusations from them and their immediate exemption from custody.”
According to Lawrence, Belyutsky and his colleagues are detained on charges of financing protests against the government and violation of public order. “I am not a lawyer, so I do not want to go into the technical details of the laws themselves, on which they were charged,” Lawrence said. “But enough to say that we consider these arrests unreasonable. The charges are simply politically motivated.”
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Lawrence notes that the Human Rights Office and a group of special procedures are closely monitoring this case.
Ales Belyatsky, together with the Russian human rights organization “Memorial” and the Ukrainian human rights organization “The Center for Civil Freedoms” received the Nobel Prize of the World 2022.