{"id":37327,"date":"2026-01-12T00:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=37327"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:22:07","slug":"belarusian-human-rights-defender-ales-bialiatski-personally-received-his-2022-nobel-peace-prize-diploma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/breaking-news\/belarusian-human-rights-defender-ales-bialiatski-personally-received-his-2022-nobel-peace-prize-diploma\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski personally received his 2022 Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37322\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37322 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-220x124.jpg 220w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-533x300.jpg 533w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n-889x500.jpg 889w, https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/613763233_1265420098965968_1324891105466235291_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from the Nobel Peace Center social media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ADC Memorial congratulates our colleague and friend, Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, on receiving his Nobel Peace Prize diploma in Oslo. The prize was awarded to Ales Bialiatski in 2022, when he was imprisoned as a political prisoner of the Belarusian dictatorial regime.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming the release of Ales Beliatski, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTQJvUsDM8t\">said<\/a> on 8 January 2026 in Oslo: \u2018The Nobel Peace Prize protected me in prison,\u2019 ADC Memorial <strong>demands the unconditional release of all political prisoners, human rights defenders, journalists and activists in Belarus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Ales Bialiatski <a href=\"https:\/\/peaceprizelaureates.nobelpeacecenter.org\/en\/laureate\/2022-ales-bjaljatski\">was awarded<\/a> the Nobel Peace Prize for his fight for human rights, democracy, and peaceful co-existence. He shares the prize with Memorial (Russia) and the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine). In 2022, the award was presented in absence to Ales Beliatski, Chairman of the Human Rights Center Viasna. The human rights defender was detained on 14 July 2021 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. At the end of 2025, he was released in exchange for the partial lifting of sanctions and forcibly expelled from Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Human Rights Center Viasna, <a href=\"https:\/\/spring96.org\/en\/news\/119380\">there were<\/a> at least 1,100 political prisoners in Belarusian prisons at the beginning of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADC Memorial congratulates our colleague and friend, Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, on receiving his Nobel Peace Prize diploma in Oslo. 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Ales Bialiatski was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize&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":"admin3","url":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/author\/admin3\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37327","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37331,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37327\/revisions\/37331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37327"},{"taxonomy":"strategy_cases","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/strategy_cases?post=37327"},{"taxonomy":"campaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaign?post=37327"},{"taxonomy":"archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive?post=37327"},{"taxonomy":"filter-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-content?post=37327"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=37327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}