Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi, whose
flogging sentence caused an outcry, has been awarded the European
Parliament's Sakharov human rights prize.
Parliament President Martin Schulz urged Saudi King Salman "to free him, so he can accept the prize".
Raif Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes in Saudi Arabia for "insulting Islam".
Raif Badawi, author of the website Free Saudi Liberals, was convicted of insulting Islam in 2012 and fined £175,000.
He received the first 50 lashes of his sentence in January, but subsequent floggings have been postponed
Note
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded by the European Parliament since 1988 to individuals or organisations for their contribution to the fight for human rights and democracy.
It is named after the Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.
Previous winners include Nelson Mandela, Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi and Pakistani education campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
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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