Video: Alexei Navalny receives the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament

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Alexei Navalny receives the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament


The imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny was awarded the European Parliament’s human rights award this year. This was announced by the Group of the European People’s Party EPP on Wednesday via Twitter. Navalny will be honored with the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and his efforts to permanently question Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s claim to power. With great courage he fought for freedoms and almost paid with his life, it was said to justify. 45-year-old Navalny, who was poisoned with a nerve agent in August 2020, is currently serving a two and a half year prison sentence for violating probation conditions. He himself described this as an advance. The EU imposed sanctions on Russian officials for the poisoning and detention of Navalny. The Sakharov Prize, named after the Soviet physicist, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, is endowed with 50,000 euros. The first prize winner in 1988 was the South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela.

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The first person to receive the 50,000 euro human rights award was the South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela.

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