Ales Bialiatski Released

Reform.news Editorial Team · 13 December 2025, 16:35

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Political prisoner and Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski has been released and forcibly taken to Lithuania, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported. He spent 1,613 days behind bars.

Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He and other Viasna human rights defenders were found guilty of smuggling committed by an organized group and financing group actions that grossly violated public order.