Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award

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Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award
Presented by Norwegian Helsinki Committee
First awarded 1980
Official website nhc.no/en/our_work/sakharov_freedom_award/

The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award, officially known as the Sakharov Freedom Award and named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established in 1980 by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee with the support and consent of Andrei Sakharov himself, to help people that because of their opinions, beliefs and conscience are persecuted or imprisoned. The fund's assets are to be used for direct support to those persecuted in their home country, mainly by granting the Sakharov Freedom Award.[1]

Laureates

Year Recipient Nationality Notes Reference
1984 Charta 77 [2]
Eliza Musaeva Russian[3] Chechen-born head of Memorial Human Rights Center in Nazran[4] [5]
2002 Amor Masovic of the Commission on Missing Persons Bosnian [6][7]
Sergei Kovaljov Russian
2006 Ales Bialiatski of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Belarusian human rights defender [8][9]
2007 Svetlana Gannushkina of the Memorial Human Rights Center Russian human rights defender [10][11][12]
2010 Evgeniy Zhovtis of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law Kazakhstani human rights defender [13][14][15]
2012 Lilia Shibanova of the Golos Russian election monitoring organization [16][17][18]
2014 Rasul Jafarov, Leyla Yunus, Anar Mammadli and Intiqam Aliyev Azerbaijani human rights activists, political prisoners [19]

See also

Notes and references

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  3. Four IHG Human Rights Activists Deported from Andijan. Moscow International Helsinki Group. 17 June 2005.
  4. Elisa Musaeva is awarded the A.D.Saharov Prize. Memorial. 30 August 2002.
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