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Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski will be over 70 when his latest prison sentence ends (Photo: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya)

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Jailed in Belarus, Nobel laureate's only hope might be Trump (or the BBC)

Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski will be over 70 when his latest prison sentence ends (Photo: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya)

There are two people who could instantly help a 62-year-old Nobel winner languishing in a Belarusian gulag, his friends say, amid hope of a prisoner exchange.

Ales Bialiatski is a human rights defender who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 and who is serving a new 10-year sentence on smuggling charges at Penal Colony No. 9 in Gorki in north-east Belarus. ...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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