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Belarusian Nobel peace prize winner moved to brutal prison

Ales Bialiatski has been in jail for 20 months following mass protests over regime of Alexander Lukashenko

The Nobel peace prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been transferred to a notoriously brutal prison in Belarus and has not been heard from in a month, his wife has said.

Natalia Pinchuk said that Bialiatski, who is serving a 10-year sentence, has been kept in an information blackout since his transfer to the N9 colony for repeat offenders in the city of Gorki, where inmates are beaten and subjected to hard labour.

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