Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been released from a Belarusian prison after more than four years. He was freed on Saturday as part of a deal with the U.S., which lifted some of the sanctions on Belarus. Bialiatski, a veteran human rights advocate, spoke to The Associated Press in Vilnius, Lithuania. He described “inhumane” conditions in the penal colony, including limited medical care. Belarus, a close ally of Russia, has faced Western sanctions for its human rights record and support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Bialiatski was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 while imprisoned.
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019 file photo, World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Maine, poses at the Charles Shay monument on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. Instead of parades, remembrances, embraces and one last great hurrah for veteran soldiers who are mostly in their nineties to celebrate VE Day, it is instead a lockdown due to the coronavirus, COVID-19. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
FILE - World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Maine, poses at the Charles Shay monument on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Shay was a combat medic assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attack on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
Barbara Lee has been Oakland’s mayor for half a year. This month she found herself consoling the friends and family of a beloved community college football coach who taught thousands. A veteran congresswoman and first-term mayor, Lee sat with The Associated Press at her downtown Oakland office the next day. She discussed her city’s struggle with violent crime and its deep sense of community. No longer representing the region from Washington, she lives her city’s rich culture, its tough streets and its tensions with the Trump administration. Almost every day she is torn between her roles as Oakland booster and crime fighter.
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A veteran FBI employee is claiming in a lawsuit that he was fired last month after displaying an LGBTQ+ flag at his workspace. David Maltinsky had worked at the FBI for 16 years and had nearly completed special agent training in Quantico, Virginia, when he was called into a meeting with FBI officials, handed a letter from Director Kash Patel and told he was being dismissed for inappropriate display of political signage. Maltinsky's lawsuit was filed Wednesday. It seeks his reinstatement to the post and an order declaring the defendants violated his constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection under law.
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Veterans in Kent County were honored on Veterans Day during a ceremony that recognized generations of service and sacrifice, from Vietnam to t…