Sakharov Prize

Sakharov Prize

"Since 1988, in the spirit of Andrei Sakharov, the European Parliament has awarded the annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in order to honour individuals or organisations for their efforts on behalf of human rights and fundamental freedoms and against oppression and injustice reflects the spirit in which the European Parliament created the Sakharov Prize...

"The European Parliament awards the human rights prize, endowed with EUR 50 000, at a formal sitting in Strasbourg which falls on or around 10 December, the day on which the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948."

==Previous Winners ==
 * 2008 - Hu Jia (China)
 * 2007 - Salih Mahmoud Osman
 * 2006 – Alexander Milinkevich
 * 2005 – Ladies in White; Hauwa Ibrahim; Reporters Without Borders
 * 2004 – Belarusian Association of Journalists
 * 2003 – UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan and all the staff of the United Nations
 * 2002 – Oswaldo Jose Paya Sardinas
 * 2001 – Izzat Ghazzawi; Nurit Peled-Elhanan; Dom Zacarias Kamwenho
 * 2000 – ¡Basta Ya!
 * 1999 – Jose Alejandro 'Xanana' Gusmao
 * 1998 – Ibrahim Rugova
 * 1997 – Salima Ghezali
 * 1996 – Wei Jingsheng
 * 1995 – Leyla Zana
 * 1994 – Taslima Nasreen
 * 1993 – Oslobodjenje
 * 1992 – Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
 * 1991 – Adem Demaci
 * 1990 – Aung San Suu Kyi
 * 1989 – Alexander Dubcek
 * 1988 – Nelson Mandela; Anatoli Marchenko (posthumously)

Related Sourcewatch

 * Andrei Sakharov Foundation