The Sakharov Prize is usually awarded annually on or around December 10th, the day on which the UN General Assembly ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948
A shortlist of nominees is drawn up by the Foreighn Affairs Committee and the Development Committee, with the winner announced in October every year
The prize is accompanied by a monetary award of €50,000
Winners Details
Year
|
Recipient
|
Details
|
1988
|
Nelson
Mandela(South Africa)
|
Anti-apartheid
activist and later President of South Africa
|
1988
|
Anatoly
Marchenko(Posthumously)
|
Soviet
dissident, author and human rights activist
|
1989
|
Alexander
Dubcek(Czech Rep)
|
Slovak
politician, attempted to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring
|
1990
|
Aung
San Suu Kyi(Myanmar)
|
Opposition
politician and a former General Secretary of the National League for
Democracy
|
1991
|
Adem
Demaci(Kosovo)
|
Kosovo
Albanian Politician and long-term political prisoner
|
1992
|
Mothers
of the Plaza de Mayo
|
Association
of Argentine mothers whose children disappeared during the Dirty War
|
1993
|
Oslobodenje(Bosnia&Herzegovina)
|
Popular
newspaper, continued to publish after its office building was destroyed in
Sarajevo
|
1994
|
Taslima
Nasrin(Bangladesh)
|
Ex-doctor,
feminist author
|
1995
|
Leyla
Zana(Turkey)
|
A
female politician of Kurdish descent from Eastern Turkey, who was imprisoned
for 10 years for speaking her native language of Kurdish in the Turkish
Parliament
|
1996
|
Wei
Jingsheng(PRC)
|
An activist
in the Chinese Democracy Movement
|
1997
|
Salima
Ghezali(Algeria)
|
Journalist
and writer, an activist of women's rights, human rights and democracy in
Algeria
|
1998
|
Ibrahim
Rugova(Kosovo)
|
Albanian
politician, the first President of Kosovo
|
1999
|
Xanana
Gusmao(East Timor)
|
Former
militant who was the first President of East Timor
|
2000
|
iBasta
Ya(Spain)
|
Organisation
uniting individuals of various political positions against terrorism
|
2001
|
Nurit
Peled-Elhanan(Israel)
|
Peace
activist
|
2001
|
Izzat
Ghazzawi(Palestine)
|
Writer,
professor.
|
2001
|
Dom
Zacarias Kamwenho(Angola)
|
Archbishop
and peace activist
|
2002
|
Oswaldo
Paya(Cuba)
|
Political
activist and dissident
|
2003
|
Kofi
Annan(Ghana) & UN
|
Nobel
Peace Prize recipient and seventh Secretary-General of the United Nation
|
2004
|
Belarussian
Association of Journalists
|
NGO "aiming
to ensure freedom of speech and rights of receiving and distributing
information and promoting professional standards of journalism"
|
2005
|
Ladies
in White(Cuba)
|
Opposition
movement, relatives of jailed dissidents
|
2005
|
Reporters
Without Borders
|
France-based
non-governmental organisation advocating freedom of the press
|
2005
|
Hauwa
Ibrahim(Nigeria)
|
Human
rights lawyer
|
2006
|
Alaksandar
Milinkievic(Belarus)
|
Politician
chosen by United Democratic Forces of Belarus as the joint candidate of the
opposition in the presidential elections of 2006
|
2007
|
Salih
Mahmoud Osman(Sudan)
|
Human
rights lawyer
|
2008
|
Hu
Jia(PRC)
|
Activist
and dissident
|
2009
|
Memorial(Russia)
|
International
civil rights and historical society
|
2010
|
Guillermo
Farinas(Cuba)
|
Doctor,
journalist and political dissident
|
2011
|
Asmaa
Mahfouz(Egypt),Ahmed al-Senussi(Libya), Razan Zaitounech(Syria),Ali Farzat (Syria)and
Mohamed Bouazizi of Tunisia(Posthumously)
|
Five
representatives of the Arab people, in recognition and support of their drive
for freedom and human rights.
|
2012
|
Jafar Panahi,Nasrin Sotoudeh
|
Iranian activists, Sotoudeh is a lawyer and Panahi is a film
director.
|
2013
|
Malala Yousafzai(Pakistan)
|
Campaigner for women's rights and education
|
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