President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday questioned the decision to award a Nobel Peace Prize to Russia’s Dmitry Muratov, chief editor of top independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta that this week lost its print licence.
Dmitry Muratov, the Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, on Monday auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize gold medal for a whopping $103.5 million to benefit children displaced by the war in Ukraine.
Rappler founder and CEO Maria Ressa’s distinction as the first Filipino to win the Nobel Peace Prize apparently wasn’t enough for the Philippine Daily Inquirer to include her among its 2021 Filipinos of the Year.
South Africa on Monday began a week of mourning for revered anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Russian newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov would not “shield” him from being branded a “foreign agent” if he breaks the law.
The Myanmar military’s detention of Aung San Suu Kyi during this week’s coup has revived memories of her more than 15 years of house arrest at a lakeside villa in Yangon during the country’s last period of junta rule.
The Myanmar military’s detention of Aung San Suu Kyi during this week’s coup has revived memories of her more than 15 years of house arrest at a lakeside villa in Yangon during the country’s last period of junta rule.
China touted its political and development model as it hosted an inaugural global human rights forum on Thursday, even as activists slammed the country’s own abuses.
China bears a “heavy responsibility” for the “premature” death of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Thursday.
