The announcement of this yr's Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organisation Middle for Civil Liberties, has provoked combined evaluations amongst world leaders, officers and human rights teams.
In a tweet, European Fee President Ursula Von der Leyen praised the "excellent braveness of the men and women standing in opposition to autocracy".
However there have been conflicting feelings amongst Ukrainian voices.
Kyiv's ambassador to Germany Andrij Melnyk described the inclusion of Russia and Belarus as "really devastating".
Whereas Anna Trushova, communications supervisor at Ukraine's Middle for Civil Liberties, mentioned they have been thrilled to obtain the popularity.
"After we discovered the information, we have been stupefied. It was an awesome begin to our day. We did not count on it. We contemplate this prize as a good recognition of our exercise", she mentioned.
The spouse of winner Ales Bialiatski, a imprisoned Belarusian human rights activist -- and founding father of the Viasna Human Rights Centre, Ales Bialiatski mentioned in a Telegram put up that she felt "comfortable" for the "sudden" prize which she sees as a "reward for his laborious work".
Belarus' opposition chief Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya additionally welcomed the announcement -- calling the prize "an necessary recognition for all Belarusians preventing for freedom and democracy". She urged all political prisoners to be "launched at once".
"Ales Bialiatski now's in jail for multiple yr and he's struggling lots in punishment cells in jail. However there are literally thousands of different people who find themselves detained due to their political beliefs", mentioned Tsikhanouskaya.
A spokesperson for Russia's Memorial Human Rights Protection Middle mentioned that the award serves as proof that the work it's doing is worth it.
"This for us, this can be a signal that our work, whether or not it's recognised by Russian authorities or not, it's important. It's important for the world. It's important for folks in Russia," mentioned board member of the Memorial Human Rights Protection Middle, Tatyana Glushkova.
Memorial have been awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2009. However Russian authorities ordered its umbrella organisation Memorial Worldwide to shut final yr -- accusing it of breaching the nation's international agent regulation.
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