Sakharov Prize

This article describes the European Parliament price. For the price of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee see Andrei Sakharov Freedom Prize ; for the American Physical Society Prize, see Andrei Sakharov Prize .

Awarding of the Sakharov Prize 2019 in the European Parliament to the Uyghur human rights activist Ilham Tohti . President of Parliament David Sassoli presented the award to Ilhalm's daughter, who was standing in for her imprisoned father.

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (also known as the EU Human Rights Prize ) has been awarded by the European Parliament since 1988 to personalities or organizations who are committed to the defense of human rights and freedom of expression . The prize is named after Andrei Sakharov , the Nobel Peace Prize laureate , and is endowed with 50,000 euros. It is awarded annually in Strasbourg .

The Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Development Committee prepare a selection of nominees , who agree on a shortlist in September each year . The Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament advises on this . The decision is usually announced in late October and the award ceremony takes place in the Strasbourg seat of the European Parliament in December.

Award winners

year	Award winners	Life dates	country	Remarks
1988	Nelson Mandela *	1918-2013	South Africa	Leader of the South African ANC , imprisoned
	Anatoly Martschenko (posthumous)	1938-1986	Soviet Union	dissident
1989	Alexander Dubček	1921-1992	Czechoslovakia	Politician and co-initiator of the Prague Spring
1990	Aung San Suu Kyi *	1945–	Myanmar	Founder of the National League for Democracy
1991	Adem Demaçi	1936-2018	Kosovo	Albanian writer
1992	Madres de Plaza de Mayo	-	Argentina	Human rights movement
1993	Oslobođenje	-	Yugoslavia	Sarajevo newspaper
1994	Taslima Nasrin	1962–	Bangladesh	Writer
1995	Leyla Zana	1961–	Turkey	Kurdish members of the Turkish parliament, imprisoned from 1994 to 2004 and later sentenced to numerous other prison terms
1996	Wei Jingsheng	1950–	People's Republic of China	Democracy and human rights activist in China, arrested after the Beijing Spring 1979; Deported to the USA at the end of 1997 after many years of inhumane prison conditions
1997	Salima Ghezali	1958–	Algeria	Journalist and human rights activist
1998	Ibrahim Rugova	1944-2006	Kosovo	political leader of the Albanian people in Kosovo
1999	Xanana Gusmão	1946–	East Timor	Leader of the independence movement in East Timor. Imprisoned from 1992 to 1997, first President of East Timor from 2002 to 2007, Prime Minister from 2007 to 2015
2000	¡Basta Ya!	-	Spain	Organization working against ETA terrorism.
2001	Don Zacarias Kamwenho	1934–	Angola	Archbishop of Lubango
	Izzat Ghazzawi	1951-2003	Palestine	writer
	Nurit Peled-Elhanan	1949–	Israel	University professor and author, lost her 13-year-old daughter in 1997 in West Jerusalem to a Palestinian suicide bomber bomb
2002	Oswaldo Payá	1952-2012	Cuba	Regime critic
2003	Kofi Annan *	1938-2018	Ghana	UN Secretary General
	All United Nations employees *	-	multinational	"In special memory of Sérgio Vieira de Mello and the many other UN officials who lost their lives in the exercise of their service for peace in the world"
2004	Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ)	-	Belarus
2005	Ladies in white	-	Cuba	Human rights movement
	Hauwa Ibrahim	1968–	Nigeria	Lawyer
	Reporters without borders	-	France
2006	Alyaksandr Milinkevich	1947–	Belarus	Opposition politician
2007	Salih Mahmoud Osman	1957–	Sudan	Human rights attorney
2008	Hu Jia	1973–	People's Republic of China	Civil rights activist, imprisoned
2009	Memorial	-	Russia	Human rights organization
2010	Guillermo Fariñas	1962–	Cuba	Critic of the regime and doctor
2011	Mohamed Bouazizi (posthumous)	1984-2011	Tunisia	Arab Spring activists
	Ali Ferzat	1951–	Syria
	Asmaa Mahfouz	1985–	Egypt
	Ahmed al-Senussi	1933–	Libya
	Razan Zaitouneh	1977–2013 (?)	Syria
2012	Jafar Panahi	1960–	Iran	Film director, imprisoned
	Nasrin Sotudeh	1963–		Lawyer, detained from 2010 to 2013 and imprisoned since 2018
2013	Malala Yousafzai *	1997–	Pakistan	Blogger and child rights activist
2014	Denis Mukwege *	1955–	DR Congo	gynecologist
2015	Raif Badawi	1984–	Saudi Arabia	Blogger, imprisoned
2016	Lamija Aji Bashar	around 1998–	Iraq	Yazidis persecuted by the “ Islamic State ”
	Nadia Murad *	1993–
2017	Democratic opposition in Venezuela	-	Venezuela	The National Assembly (deputy Julio Borges ) and all of the organization “ Foro Penal Venezolano ” (Venezuelan Forum for the Defense of Political Prisoners) recognized political prisoners, including Leopoldo López , Antonio Ledezma , Daniel Ceballos , Yon Goicoechea , Lorent Saleh , Alfredo Ramos and Andrea González .
2018	Oleh Sentsov	1976–	Ukraine	Film director, imprisoned May 2014 to September 2019
2019	Ilham Tohti	1969–	People's Republic of China	Uighur human rights advocate and economics professor, sentenced to life imprisonment for “ separatism ” in 2014
2020	Democratic opposition in Belarus , represented by the Coordinating Council	-	Belarus	Democratic opposition to the politics and presidency of Aljaksandr Lukashenka
2021	Alexei Navalny	1976–	Russia	Opposition, anti- corruption activist

* = Persons or organizations that have also been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Web links

Commons : Prix Sakharov  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sakharov Prize on the European Parliament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sakharov Prize goes to Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsow. In: Spiegel Online. October 25, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ilham Tohti, winner of the 2019 Sakharov Prize. European Parliament, accessed on December 1, 2019 . 
3. ^ The democratic opposition in Belarus - 2020, Belarus. European Parliament, accessed October 22, 2020 . 
4. ↑ zeit.de: Belarusian opposition receives Sakharov Prize
5. ↑ tagesschau.de: Kremlin critic Navalny receives Sakharov Prize from the EU Parliament. Retrieved October 20, 2021 .