This year's Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov.
The Nobel Committee said the two men were selected because they worked to uphold freedom of expression, a prerequisite for democracy and lasting peace.
Lesa, a journalist from the Philippines, founded the investigative journalism media 'Rappler' in 2012 to take the lead in reporting corruption in the Duterte government. I have criticized Putin.