Co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Belarusian civil liberties activist Ales Beliatski, in prison in his country, will be represented by his wife at the ceremony of awarding the prestigious award, announced Friday, November 25 the Nobel Institute.
Awarded at the beginning of October, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, to the 60-year-old activist jointly with the Russian NGO Memorial, dismantled by order of Russian justice, and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), the Nobel Peace Prize will be formally delivered to Oslo on December 10.
"We are very happy"
Again thrown into prison during the repression of the massive demonstrations against the re-election – deemed fraudulent by the opposition and the Westerners – of the authoritarian president Alexandre Lukashenko in 2020, Ales Beliatski will therefore be represented there by his wife, Natalia Pintchouk.
"
We are very happy that she left Belarus and everything is in place for her to participate in the presentation (of the Nobel) at Oslo City Hall on December 10,
" said the director of the 'Nobel Institute, Olav Njølstad, in an email.
Memorial will be represented by its president Ian Rachinsky and the CCL by its leader Alexandra Matviïtchouk, specified the Institute.
The Nobel was awarded to the trio for their opposition to autocracy and their commitment to "
human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the three neighboring countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine
".
