{"id":24416,"date":"2021-12-10T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=24416"},"modified":"2021-12-11T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T10:38:18","slug":"nobel-prize-awarded-to-champion-of-human-rights-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/breaking-news\/nobel-prize-awarded-to-champion-of-human-rights-defenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize Awarded to Champion of Human Rights Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2021 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8Bi2Lj_9-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Human Rights Day\u00a0\u2013 December 10, 2021\u00a0\u2013 the Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to Novaya gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov. This is the first time the prize has been awarded to a citizen of Russia,\u00a0although it was previously awarded to Soviet citizens Andrei Sakharov and Mikhail Gorbachev.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision to award the Peace Prize to one of Russia\u2019s most assiduous, pro-democracy journalists, who has led an outstanding collective of fearless and top-notch journalists at Novaya gazeta for decades, is a sign of support and solidarity with civil society in Russia and a recognition of the contributions of those who fight for freedom of speech. This recognition is particularly relevant now, when all honest journalists, human rights defenders, and regular people who refuse to remain silent about injustice, are facing repressions, being branded as \u201cforeign agents,\u201d and confronting the choice of leaving Russia or ending up behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/peace\/2021\/muratov\/lecture\/\">speeches made before being awarded the Nobel Prize<\/a>, Muratov repeatedly raised the problem of the political persecution of the media, NGOs, and individuals deemed \u201cforeign agents\u201d and criticized and called for the repeal of laws that make it possible to stigmatize independent journalists and human rights defenders. Among other groups and individuals, Muratov has always stood up for Memorial:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMemorial works to rehabilitate the victims of Stalin\u2019s repressions. And now prosecutors are charging it with \u2018violation of human rights!\u2019 I would like to remind you that Memorial was established by Sakharov. Perhaps a monument to the late Sakharov is safer than his living, breathing project? Memorial is not the enemy of the people. Memorial is the friend of the people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>International Memorial and Memorial Human Rights Center have been deemed \u201cNGOs performing the functions of a foreign agent\u201d by the Ministry of Justice and are now being defended in court against demands for the liquidation of these vital structures, which preserve the memory of Russia\u2019s past and fight against present-day repressions. Muratov commented that people who do not want to believe in the myths of that past are being punished, and called for all countries to repeal \u201cforeign agent\u201d laws. He believes that democracy and freedom of speech are the only things that can provide protection from the worst misfortunes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDisbelief in democracy will mean that the countries that reject it will be awarded with dictators. And where there is dictatorship, there is war. If we reject democracy, we agree to war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Human Rights Day\u00a0\u2013 December 10, 2021\u00a0\u2013 the Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to Novaya gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov. 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This is the first time the prize has been awarded to a citizen of Russia,\u00a0although it was previously awarded to Soviet citizens Andrei Sakharov and Mikhail Gorbachev. The decision to award the Peace Prize to one of Russia\u2019s most assiduous, pro-democracy journalists, who has led an outstanding collective of fearless and top-notch journalists at Novaya gazeta for decades, is a sign of support and solidarity with civil society in Russia and a recognition of the contributions of those who fight&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/category\/news\/breaking-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Breaking news<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"\u0410 \u0411","url":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/author\/ab666\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24419,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416\/revisions\/24419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24416"},{"taxonomy":"strategy_cases","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/strategy_cases?post=24416"},{"taxonomy":"campaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaign?post=24416"},{"taxonomy":"archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive?post=24416"},{"taxonomy":"filter-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-content?post=24416"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=24416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}