OP criticized: the Nobel Peace Prize was given to human rights activists of Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian Federation

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 by human rights activist Alya Bilyatsky from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization" Memorial "and the Ukrainian Human Rights Organ I wanted to note the champions of "human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence" in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

Advisor to the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak criticized the simultaneous award of Nobelivka to the Ukrainian organization and representatives The Nobel Prize is received together by representatives of the two countries who attacked the third, "he commented. According to Podolyak, neither Russian nor Belarusian activists during the full -scale war and failed to organize resistance of military aggression against Ukraine. Nobel this year is simply" Super ”, –– the OP representative .

At the same time, the CGS reported that I was glad to receive the Nobel Peace Prize together with friends and partners from the Russian Memorial and the Belarusian Vyasna. "All of my 20 years of experience of fighting for freedom and human rights convincingly says that ordinary people have a much greater impact than they think. Mass mobilization ", - in this connection, the head of the CSS Alexander Matviychuk wrote.

The Memorial Human Rights Organization was established in 1987 on the basis of the historical and educational section of the Democratic Restructuring Club. One of the founders of the organization was the academician and dissident Andriy Sakharov. In 2000, the Memorial began investigating the killing by the Russian military with more than 50 civilians in the Chechen village of New ALDA.

From 2007 to 2011, the organization was tried with the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, demanding the rehabilitation of Katyn victims and declassifying the investigation materials.

In December 2021, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation accused the organization of repeated violation of the requirements of the legislation on "foreign agents" and that it "creates a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state, whitens and rehabilitates Nazi criminals. " In 2009, the Memorial received the Prize. Sakharov. In 1996, Belarus Ales Bilyatsky founded the Vyasna-96 Human Rights Organization (now-Spring Human Rights Center) that supports prisoners.

The Center also documents the use of torture for political prisoners in Belarus. More than twenty times he was prosecuted for active public and human rights activities. From 2011 to 2014 he was imprisoned. During the 2020 protests, Belarus became a member of the Coordination Council to organize the process of overcoming the political crisis in the republic. On July 14, 2021, Bilyatsky was detained by Belarusian law enforcement agencies. It is still in custody without a court decision.

The Center for Civil Liberties is a Ukrainian human rights organization established in Kyiv in 2007. Monitor the draft laws on compliance with human rights standards, exercises public control over the actions of law enforcement, courts and local authorities. Human rights activists are investigating the crimes committed during the Euromaidan, as well as documenting the political persecution of Ukrainian citizens in the occupied Crimea.