{"id":19221,"date":"2022-12-10T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/10\/nobel-peace-prize-russian-laureate-told-to-turn-down-award\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:00:14","slug":"nobel-peace-prize-russian-laureate-told-to-turn-down-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=19221","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Prize: Russian laureate &#8216;told to turn down award&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A Russian human rights activist has told the BBC that he was ordered to turn down the Nobel Peace Prize by the Russian authorities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Yan Rachinsky is from Memorial, one one of three joint winners of this year&#8217;s accolade, alongside and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties, and Ales Bialiatski, who is in prison in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Rachinsky chose to accept the award and told Stephen Sackur of BBC&#8217;s HARDtalk: &#8220;In today&#8217;s Russia no-one&#8217;s personal safety is guaranteed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For over 30 years, Memorial worked on uncovering the fates of the victims of Soviet political repression. It also exposed human rights abuses in present-day Russia, before being forced to close.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-63927607?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A Russian human rights activist has told the BBC that he was ordered to turn down the Nobel Peace Prize by the Russian authorities. Yan Rachinsky is from Memorial, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}