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 who, 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.
Laureates YearRecipient Nationality NotesReference 1984 Charta 77 ČSSR 1996 Sergei Kovalev of the Memorial Human Rights Center Russian human rights defender 2002 Eliza Musaeva of the Memorial Human Rights Center RussianFour IHG Human Rights Activists Deported from Andijan. Moscow International Helsinki Group. 17 June 2005. human rights defenderEliza Musaeva (German) 2002 Amor Mašović of the Commission on Missing Persons Bosnian 2006 Ales Bialiatski of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Belarusian human rights defender 2007 Svetlana Gannushkina of the Memorial Human Rights Center Russian human rights defender 2010 Evgeniy Zhovtis of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law Kazakhstani human rights defender 2012 Lilia Shibanova of the Golos Russian election monitoring organization 2014 Rasul Jafarov, Leyla Yunus, Anar Mammadli and Intiqam Aliyev Azerbaijani human rights activists, political prisoners 2017 the newspaper Novaya Gazeta and the organization Committee for the Prevention of Torture Russian anti-torture fighters 2019 Hungarian Helsinki Committee Hungary human rights organization 2021 Yury A. Dmitriev Russian historian and dissident 2023 Truth Hounds Ukraine Human rights organisation
See also
Sakharov Prize
References