Rights champions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus win Nobel Peace Prize

Ukraine rights group 'stupefied' after Nobel Prize win

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to human rights campaigners from Belarus, Ukraine and Russia

Human rights watchdogs from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, with the jury criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin's "authoritarian" regime as he waged war in Ukraine.  

The Nobel committee on Friday also called on Belarus to release Bialiatski, 60, the founder of rights group Viasna whose work has charted the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of President Alexander Lukashenko and his security forces.