Nobel Peace Prize: Russian laureate 'told to turn down award'

A Russian quality rights activistic has told the BBC that helium was ordered to crook down the Nobel Peace Prize by the Russian authorities.

Yan Rachinsky is from Memorial, 1 of 3 associated winners of this year's accolade, alongside the Ukrainian quality rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties, and Ales Bialiatski, who is successful situation successful Belarus.

Mr Rachinsky chose to judge the grant and told Stephen Sackur of BBC's HARDtalk: "In today's Russia no-one's idiosyncratic information is guaranteed".

For much than 30 years, Memorial worked connected uncovering the fates of the victims of Soviet governmental repression. It besides exposed quality rights abuses successful present-day Russia, earlier being forced to close.

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