Nobel Peace Prize: Russian laureate should reject award
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- December 10, 2022
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A Russian human rights activist has told the ZooHouseNews that he has been ordered by the Russian authorities to reject the Nobel Peace Prize.
Memorial’s Yan Rachinsky is one of three joint winners of this year’s award, along with the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties and Ales Bialiatski, who is in prison in Belarus.
Accepting the award, Mr Rachinsky told Stephen Sackur of ZooHouseNews’s HARDtalk: “In today’s Russia, nobody’s personal safety is guaranteed”.
For more than 30 years, Memorial has worked to uncover the fates of victims of Soviet political repression. It also exposed human rights abuses in modern-day Russia before it was forced to close.
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