From a Nobel Peace Prize winner being jailed to a dog flying business class – Here's your March 6 news briefing
Ales Bialiatski, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist, has been fighting for human rights in Belarus since the 80s.
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Belarus sentences Nobel Prize winner to 10 years in prison
On Friday, Belarus handed Ales Bialiatski a 10-year prison sentence.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visits China
In September, Belarus and China agreed to strengthen ties.
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is shared among Ukraine, Belarus and Russia activists
Last week, the Nobel Prizes were awarded, including the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. At this point, it’s been awarded 103 times to 140 Nobel Prize laureates since 1901, 110 individuals and 30 organizations. Winners promote peace in various ways, from human rights to disarmament. About a third of them
How Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s situation relates to the arrest of that opposition journalist in Belarus
“When the crisis has been internationalized, when there is danger not only for Belarusian citizens but European citizens, this made European politicians to react much more actively, to understand that this is snot a crisis that can be in the borders of Belarus, that can be kept inside Belarus.”
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How have Europe and the US responded to Lukashenko’s arrest of that Belarusian reporter?
Protasevich’s family has said that they fear he will be tortured by the authorities. They’ve called on the EU and the international community to put “unprecedented pressure” on Belarus to let Protasevich go.
* On May 23, a dissident Belarusian journalist was arrested when the Ryanair flight he was
What’s happening with that journalist in Belarus?
In a TMS exclusive, Benno Zogg, a senior researcher in the Swiss and Euro- Atlantic Security Team at the Center for Security Studies in Zurich, said that the arrest of Roman Protasevich is part of a larger wave of pushback from the Lukashenko regime against individuals and organizations, such as