Andrei 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]

Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award
Presented byNorwegian Helsinki Committee
First awarded1980
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Laureates
Year Recipient Nationality Notes Reference
1984 Charta 77 ČSSR [2]
1996 Sergei Kovalev Russian Human Rights Defender, Memorial
2002 Eliza Musaeva Russian[3] Chechen-born head of Memorial Human Rights Center in Nazran[4] [5][6]
2002 Amor Masovic of the Commission on Missing Persons Bosnian [7][8]
2006 Ales Bialiatski of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Belarusian human rights defender [9][10]
2007 Svetlana Gannushkina of the Memorial Human Rights Center Russian human rights defender [11][12][13]
2010 Evgeniy Zhovtis of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law Kazakhstani human rights defender [14][15][16]
2012 Lilia Shibanova of the Golos Russian election monitoring organization [17][18][19]
2014 Rasul Jafarov, Leyla Yunus, Anar Mammadli and Intiqam Aliyev Azerbaijani human rights activists, political prisoners [20]
2017 the newspaper Novaya Gazeta and the organization Committee for the Prevention of Torture Russian anti-torture fighters [21]

See also

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 Archived 2011-01-31 at the Wayback Machine. Memorial. 30 August 2002.
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  6. Eliza Musaeva (German)
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  8. "Dobri Bosnjani : MAŠOVIĆ, Amor". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
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  12. Luhr, Nina (2007). Human Rights House Network : Annual Report 2007. humanrightshouse.org/noop/file.php?id=11554: The Human Rights House Network. p. 17.CS1 maint: location (link)
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  16. "Andrej Sakharovs Frihetspris 2010". Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  17. "Russian Golos and Lilya Shibanova received Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award 2012 at NHC 35th anniversary". Den Norske Helsingforskomite. 2012-10-25. Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  18. "Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award 2012 is awarded to Association GOLOS". Norwegian Helsinki Committee. 2012-09-12. Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  19. "Golos awarded The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award". 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  20. "Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award to political prisoners in Azerbaijan". Den Norske Helsingsforkomite. Den Norske Helsingsforkomite. 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  21. "Sakharov Freedom Award to anti-torture fighters in Russia". Archived from the original on 29 April 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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