 On the occasion of the award, Chazov gave the acceptance speech in Oslo.At that time the group represented more than 135,000 members from 41 countries.Many groups protested the decision to include Chazov, and alleged that Chazov was responsible for some of the Soviet abuses of psychiatry and medicine and for attacks against a 1975 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the physicist and Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov.