This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, a strong rebuke to Russia's President Putin on his 70th birthday:
Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, in 2021. BERLIN, MOSCOW, KYIV – The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, as well as the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.
This year's recipients come from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year. Belarus has sided with Russia. It has also suppressed democratic progress on its own side. Last year the editor of Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper famous for its critical stance on the Kremlin, won the award.
"He has devoted his life to promoting democracy and peaceful development in his home country," said Reiss-Ansersen, the chairperson of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.The human rights group 'Memorial' emerged out of a push for new freedoms in the late Soviet era. In 2021, the organization was"liquidated" for failure to meet reporting requirements under Russia's"foreign agents" law. A parallel case found Memorial's human rights wing guilty of"promoting terrorism" through a list it keeps of current-day political prisoners.
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