The Nobel Peace Nobel was awarded this Friday, October 7, 2022, to a trio of representatives of civil companies in Eastern Europe. Three winners who were appointed among the 343 names selected this year by the Nobel Committee.
It is the Belarusian activist Ales Beliatski, the Russian NGO Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, a highly symbolic price in the middle of the war in Ukraine.
“The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honor three remarkable champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the three neighboring countries: Bélarus, Russia and Ukraine,” said its president Berit Reiss-Andersen.
They thus succeed Philippine journalists Maria Ressa and Russian Dmitri Mouratov for “their courageous fight for freedom of expression. »»
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2022 #nobelpeacepti to Human Rights Advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian Human Rights Organization Memorial and the Ukrainian Human Rights Organization Center for Civil Liberties. #Nobelprize pic.twitter.com/9ybdkjpdlu
– The Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) October 7, 2022
