The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, as well as the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties. Since then, Viasna (Spring) Human Rights Centre has become the country’s leading civil society organization through documenting human rights abuses and monitoring elections. MemorialThe human rights group ‘Memorial’ emerged out of a push for new freedoms in the late Soviet era. Yet it was the organization’s work documenting human rights abuses in the new Russia that put Memorial increasingly at odds with Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. A parallel case found Memorial’s human rights wing guilty of “promoting terrorism” through a list it keeps of current-day political prisoners.

Source: Nigerian Tribune October 07, 2022 22:31 UTC