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    Dozens of Nobel Prize winners demand release of Belarus political prisoners

    by Matt Mathers Mar 20, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    More than two dozen Nobel prize winners have slammed the “human catastrophe” of repression in Belarus in an open letter demanding the immediate release of political prisoners in the authoritarian country.

    Oscar Arias Sanchez, the former president of Cost Rica; ; Dmitry Muratov, the journalist and former editor-in-chief of the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and Oleksandra Matviichuk, the Ukrainian human rights lawyers are among

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