Political prisoner Statkievič nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

January 30, Pozirk. Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius has told Pozirk that he nominated Belarusian political prisoner Mikałaj Statkievič for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Plain-clothes officers arrested Statkievič in Minsk on May 31, 2020. In December 2021, a judge sentenced him to 14 years in prison for allegedly organizing riots.
In 2022, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence, and officers transferred him from a detention center in Homiel to Hłybokaje’s Penal Colony No. 13, whose administration registered him as “prone to extremism.” In August, wardens placed him in solitary confinement for six months, and in September, they locked him in a punishment cell.
He has been held incommunicado since February 2023.
In 2022, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the arrested founder and leader of the Viasna Human Rights Center, Aleś Bialacki, as well as to the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and the Russian human rights organization Memorial.
Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice: with Maryja Kaleśnikava and Vieranika Capkała in 2021 and also in 2022.

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