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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Harding

Rebuke to Putin as Eastern European rights campaigners win Nobel Peace Prize

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A trio of Eastern European human rights campaigners from three neighbouring countries have been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Ales Bialyatski – a human rights advocate from Belarus – took the award along with Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation the Centre for Civil Liberties.

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