The co-winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Russia’s oldest human rights organisation, Memorial, Ukraine’s Centre of Civil Liberties [CCL] and jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, had been honoured at an professional awards rite in Oslo.
It comes as Oleksandra Matviichuk, director of Ukraine’s CCL, advised journalists on Friday that the global neighborhood must convey Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Belarus’ President Aleksandr Lukashenko to justice.
“We must break the circle of impunity. We must establish an international tribunal and hold Putin, Lukashenko and other war criminals accountable, not only for Ukrainians, but for the other nations in the world,” Matviichuk stated.
The human rights legal professional says she is assured Putin might be attempted “sooner or later”.
Founded in 2007, the Kyiv-based CCL paperwork conflict crimes dedicated through Russian troops in Ukraine.
“This war has a genocidal character,” she stated. “If Ukraine stops its resistance, there will be no more of us.”
Memorial, acclaimed for its research on political repression, used to be close down through Russia’s superb courtroom in December 2021 after the Duma declared the organisation a overseas agent in 2016.
The imprisoned Bialiatski is the fourth individual within the 121-year historical past of the Nobel prizes to be awarded the prize whilst in the back of bars.
The triple prize has been noticed as a powerful rebuke of Putin and Lukashenko’s crackdown on democracy.
