UN panel calls on Belarus to release Nobel Peace laureate from prison

FILE – Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, sits in a defendant’s cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. The wife of Bialiatskian, an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said Wednesday July 10, 2024 that the country’s authorities are depriving her husband of medicine as his health deteriorates. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)