Bialiatski won along with Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.
The final recipient, Russian rights group Memorial, was founded in 1987 in the former Soviet Union to honor victims of political oppression.
Bialiatski's campaign group, Viasna, has documented and spoken out against the use of torture on political prisoners in Belarus. Bialiatski was arrested following widespread protests against Lukashenko's regime in 2020 and 2021, which were met with a violent crackdown and thousands of arrests.
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