BBC News 7 October 2022
- Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian civil rights campaigners are the joint winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize
- Ales Bialiatski takes the award for his work as a human rights advocate in Belarus
- The Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation the Center for Civil Liberties are also winners
- The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually to a person, or people, who have worked to benefit humankind
- The announcement was made at a news conference in the Norwegian capital, Oslo
- Previous winners of the Nobel medal include Barack Obama in 2009 and Malala Yousafzai who shared the prize in 2014
