Catch up locals' news in English
2022-10-07T11:38:52.629Z
The repression in Belarus has never been as brutal and massive as it is now. Peace laureate Ales Bjaljatski told SVT's reporter Elin Jönsson when they met in Stockholm in 2020. - That authorities would deliberately infect people with corona may sound unimaginable, but it is a torture method in detention centers and prisons in Belarus, he said.
This year's peace prize winner Ales Byalyatski received the alternative Nobel Prize Right Livelihood prize in Stockholm in 2020, the same year he was imprisoned in Belarus.
Since then he has been detained.
During the meeting, he told SVT's reporter Elin Jönsson about the situation in the country and testified about the authorities' torture-like methods.
Watch the interview with Ales Byaljatski in the player above.
Source: svt
