Russian Nobel Peace laureate slams Putin's 'insane and criminal war' on Ukraine - CNN

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Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yan Rachinsky blasted President Vladimir Putin’s “insane and criminal” war connected Ukraine successful his acceptance code successful the Norwegian superior Oslo connected Saturday.

Rachinsky, from Russia’s quality rights enactment Memorial, claimed absorption to Russia is known arsenic “fascism” nether Putin, adding this has go “the ideological justification for the insane and transgression warfare of aggression against Ukraine.”

Memorial, 1 of Russia’s astir well-known and respected quality rights groups, worked to exposure the abuses and atrocities of the Stalinist epoch for much than 3 decades earlier it was ordered to adjacent by the country’s Supreme Court precocious past year.

Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk called for an planetary tribunal to Putin and Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko to justness implicit “war crimes” successful her acceptance speech.

Matviichuk, who accepted the prize connected behalf of her quality rights organization, the Center for Civil Liberties successful Ukraine, said this would beryllium a mode to “ensure justness for those affected by the war.”

Matviichuk warned warfare criminals should not lone beryllium convicted aft the autumn of authoritarian regimes, adding, “justice cannot wait.”

“We person to found an planetary tribunal and bring Putin, Lukashenko and different warfare criminals to justice,” she continued.

Human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine – Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties – were officially awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 connected Saturday, on with the jailed Belarusian advocator Ales Bialiatski.

Bialiatski’s woman received his grant connected his behalf astatine a ceremony. The 3 winners volition stock the prize wealth of 10,000,000 Swedish krona ($900,000).

The caller laureates were honored for “an outstanding effort to papers warfare crimes, quality close abuses and the maltreatment of power” successful their respective countries.

“They person for galore years promoted the close to knock powerfulness and support the cardinal rights of citizens,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said successful a connection successful October erstwhile the winners were announced.