Muhammad Ali to receive German peace prize

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is to receive a prestigious German peace prize for his work with in the US civil rights movement and for the United Nations.

Ali, 63, is to receive the Otto Hahn peace medal tomorrow for his “life-long engagement in the American civil rights movement and the global cultural emancipation of blacks, as well as his work as a UN Goodwill ambassador,” the organisation said.

The award is presented every two years.

Other recipients include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

It is named after the 1944 Nobel Prize winner Hahn, a German chemist and nuclear physicist who fled the Nazis in 1938.

In addition to the ceremony, Ali is also to attend a boxing match featuring his daughter Laila Ali in Berlin.