30 Years of the Sakharov Prize
During the first thirty years of the Sakharov Prize, the European Parliament more than 30 individuals and eight organisations were awarded for their outstanding contributions in protecting human rights and promoting democracy. The people who have been awarded this prize come from different continents and countries and represent different professions, from lawyers, journalists, writers, politicians, religious men and women, teachers to artists. What joins recipients of the Prize is that they have seen the urgent need ‘to promote basic human rights, especially freedom of discussion and inquiry, respect for the law, and for international law and conventions and mutual commitments as the foundation of peace among nations' and that they have all been willing to devote their lives to this struggle.
European Parliamentary Research Service Study