Nobel institute: Suu Kyi can't be stripped of prize

The Norwegian Nobel Institute, which oversees the Nobel Peace Prize, has said the 1991 prize awarded to Myanmar's Aung Sang Suu Kyi cannot be revoked, according to a UNB report. The organisation on Friday said neither the will of prize founder Alfred Nobel nor the Nobel Foundation's rules provide for the possibility of withdrawing the honor from laureates. More than 386,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org, calling for Suu Kyi’s Peace Prize to be stripped from her due to the persecution of her country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. She received the award for "her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" while standing up against military rulers. When Myanmar held its first free election in 2012, she led her party to a landslide victory and became the country’s de facto leader.