Belarusian campaigner Ales Bialiatski and two human rights groups win 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

Belarusian quality rights activistic Ales Bialiatski, Russian quality rights enactment Memorial and the Ukrainian quality rights enactment Center for Civil Liberties person been awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

Bialiatski, 60, helped spark the ideology question that began successful Belarus successful the 1980s. He has been successful situation since 2021 connected charges of taxation evasion wide considered to beryllium politically motivated. He served a situation condemnation from October 2011 to June 2014 connected the aforesaid charge.

The Nobel committee said helium had "devoted his beingness to promoting ideology and peaceful improvement successful his location country."

The Center for Civil Liberties was founded successful 2007 to enactment Ukrainian civilian society, beforehand quality rights and run for afloat ideology successful the country.

The Nobel Peace Prize is 1 of six awards fixed each twelvemonth since 1901 by a five-person committee elected by the Norwegian parliament. It is intended to admit those who person "conferred the top payment to humankind."

This year, the Nobel Prize successful Literature was awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux.

Within the sciences, the prize for physics went to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for "pioneering quantum accusation science"; the prize for chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for enactment successful "click" chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry; and the prize for medicine went to Svante Pääbo for decoding the genome of Neandertals.

The economics prize volition beryllium announced Monday.

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