Who is Ales Bialiatski, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Jailed Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski is among three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize this year. The 60-year-old is the Founder of the Viasna (Spring) Human Rights Centre, set up in 1996, which supported jailed protesters and documented the use of torture by authorities against political prisoners. President Alexander Lukashenko's regime has detained him without trial since 2020.