Human Rights Watch Statement on Nobel Peace Prize

 

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Alex Bialiatski, founder of the Human Rights Center "Viasna", speaks during the 19th Forum 2000 conference on democracy, education, in Prague, September 13, 2015.   © 2015 CTK via AP Images

Tanya Lokshina, Associate Director of Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division, said the following: 

“The Nobel Committee’s awarding the Peace Prize to imprisoned Belarusian rights defender Alex Bialiatski, Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties, which is at the forefront of documenting Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine, and the tenacious Russian rights giant Memorial, is a great gesture of solidarity with rights groups battling for populations under siege.”