Malala Yousafzai receives EU’s Sakharov Human Rights Prize Wed Nov 20,2013

 

Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year, today received the EU’s Sakharov human rights prize at a ceremony in Strasbourg. 

The European Parliament President, Martin Schulz, presented the award

 

Malala Yousafzai, dedicated the award to “the unsung heroes of Pakistan” and to human rights campaigners worldwide

“I am hopeful the European Parliament will look beyond Europe to the suffering countries where people are still deprived of their basic rights, their freedom of thought is suppressed, freedom of speech is enchained

Note

The Sakharov Prize for free speech is awarded by the European Parliament annually in memory of Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.

The 50,000—euro (USD 65,000) prize is considered Europe’s top human rights award