The Ukrainian human rights organization the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) - one of three recipients of this year's Nobel Peace Prize - has tweeted after receiving the accolade.
The wife of Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski says she's "overwhelmed with emotion". Natallia Pinchuk told the AFP news agency: "I express my deep gratitude to the Nobel Committee and the international community for recognizing the work of Ales, his colleagues and his organization."
Belarusian dissident Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has congratulated her compatriot, the human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, for being jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "The prize is an important recognition for all Belarusians fighting for freedom & democracy," she wrote in a tweet. "All political prisoners must be released without delay," she said. Bialitski is currently in prison in Belarus, and Tikhanovskaya herself lives in exile. Meanwhile, one of the country's opposition politicians, Pavel Latushko, was quoted by Reuters saying Bialiatski's win was an award "for all political prisoners" in Belarus.
2022 Nobel Peace Prize recapped
This morning we learnt the three winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize - one activist and two organizations in Eastern Europe.
We'll continue bringing you reactions to the announcements in Oslo. In the meantime, here's everything you need to know:
- Ales Bialiatski, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties (CGS) and Memorial, one of Russia's oldest human rights groups, all won the prestigious accolade
- Bialiatski is a Belarusian human rights activist, who founded a human rights body of his own in response to protest crackdowns. He's currently being held in pre-trial detention
- CGS, set up in 2007, has monitored political persecutions in occupied Crimea and documented war crimes following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Memorial, which was shut down earlier this year, worked to recover the memory of the millions of innocent people executed, imprisoned or persecuted in the Soviet era
- The award carries significant prestige on the world stage - and the winners will share prize money of 10m Swedish krona (£803,000; $897,000)
- The Peace Prize caps off a week of Nobel awards announcements
