Activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize, a strong rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin whose invasion of Ukraine has outraged the international community and highlighted his authoritarian rule.
This year the prize comes amid the largest war in Europe since World War II, a conflict that has displaced millions from their homes, destroyed cities and killed a still undetermined large number."We are talking about two authoritarian regimes and one nation fighting a war and we would like to highlight the importance of civic society," Reiss-Andersen said.
"Despite tremendous personal hardship, Mr. Bialiatski has not yielded one inch in his fight for human rights and democracy in Belarus," Reiss-Andersen said, adding that the Nobel panel was calling on Belarusian authorities to release him. Tatyana Glushkova, a board member of the Memorial Human Rights Defense Center, said she and her colleagues were "very, very happy” to have the importance of their work recognized.
Glushkova said the award was handed to the group on the day when it once again had to appear in court in Moscow — this time on a case related to its office building in central Moscow. “The center is playing a pioneering role with a view to holding the guilty parties accountable for their crimes,” said Reiss-Andersen.
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