Staff at Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties shocked at prize

(7 Oct 2022)
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Kyiv - 7 October 2022
1. Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties (UCCL) members posing for photos
2. Wide of UCCL office
3. Staff member on phone
4. Logo of UCCL
5. Staff member on phone
6. Volodymyr Yavorskyi, UCCL staff member, walking in street
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Yavorskyi, researcher at the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties:
"Well personally I feel great and I think it is very good for human rights and democracy in the world because it's like tools for no war, so that's why it is important for us."
8. Logo UCCL
9. Close of poster in office
10. Close of website link on poster
11. Yavorskyi looking at phone
12. Mid of Yavorskyi
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Yavorskyi, researcher at the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties:
"We did a lot of work against the war, against crimes against humanity and against human rights violation in our country."
14. Close of mug and book on desk at UCCL
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Yavorskyi, Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties staff member:
"It is like tools against the war. That's why we need democracy and human rights in both Belarus and Russia. I believe if there will be no autocratic regime in Belarus and Russia there will be no war."
16. Message board at UCCL office
17. Ukrainian flag on wall
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Yavorskyi, researcher at the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties:
"It's attention to the international crimes which were committed in Ukraine (referring to alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine) and we believe the people who did it, they should be in the courts, in different courts, in different types of courts. So we need justice and we work for justice because without justice there will be war again and again."
19. Yavorskyi walking
20. Wide of UCCL information coordinator Sviatoslav Ruban at his desk
21. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Sviatoslav Ruban, UCCL information coordinator:
"I feel very good but regardless of the fact that we have received this prestigious prize, we will continue our work. This in an additional and pleasant moment that will motivate us to move forward."
22. Wide of Ruban talking to press in his UCCL office  
23. UCCL staffers posing for photos
STORYLINE:
Staff at the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties (UCCL) on Friday expressed their joy after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2022 prize to imprisoned Belarus activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the UCCL after the panel said they wanted to honor "three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence”.
"Personally I feel great and I think it is very good for human rights and democracy in the world," Volodymyr Yavorskyi, a researcher at the Center for Civil Liberties, said of the award.
He stressed the importance of democracy and human rights.
“Human rights activity is the main weapon against the war,” said Yavorskyi, who is married to a Belarusian and lived in Minsk until May 2021, when he was expelled along with his 9-year old son.
He is barred from entering Belarus for 10 years and said law enforcement beat him during interrogations.
Sviatoslav Ruban, an information coordinator at the centre, shared Yavorskyi's joy at receiving the prize and said it would motivate the group moving forward.
The Center for Civil Liberties was founded in 2007 to promote human rights and democracy in Ukraine during a period of turmoil in the country.
  
  
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