A Russian human rights activist has instructed the BBC that he was ordered to show down the Nobel Peace Prize by the Russian authorities.
Yan Rachinsky is from Memorial, certainly one of three joint winners of this 12 months’s accolade, alongside the Ukrainian human rights organisation Middle for Civil Liberties, and Ales Bialiatski, who’s in jail in Belarus.
Mr Rachinsky selected to simply accept the award and instructed Stephen Sackur of BBC’s HARDtalk: “In in the present day’s Russia no-one’s private security is assured”.
For greater than 30 years, Memorial labored on uncovering the fates of the victims of Soviet political repression. It additionally uncovered human rights abuses in present-day Russia, earlier than being compelled to shut.
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