Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award

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

• Sakharov Prize

Notes and references

1. "Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award". Den Norske Helsingforskomite. Den Norske Helsingforskomite. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
2. "Sakharov Freedom Award". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
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.
5. "Sakharov Freedom Award". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
6. "Sakharov Freedom Award". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
7. "Dobri Bosnjani : MAŠOVIĆ, Amor". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
8. "Sakharov Freedom Award". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
9. "Russian Golos and Lilya Shibanova received Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award 2012 at NHC 35th anniversary". 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
10. "Sakharov Freedom Award". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
11. Luhr, Nina (2007). Human Rights House Network : Annual Report 2007. humanrightshouse.org/noop/file.php?id=11554: The Human Rights House Network. p. 17.
12. "Andrej Sakharovs frihetspris 2007". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
13. "Sakharov Freedom Award". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
14. "Russian Golos and Lilya Shibanova received Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award 2012 at NHC 35th anniversary". 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
15. "Andrej Sakharovs Frihetspris 2010". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
16. "Russian Golos and Lilya Shibanova received Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award 2012 at NHC 35th anniversary". Den Norske Helsingforskomite. 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
17. "Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award 2012 is awarded to Association GOLOS". Norwegian Helsinki Committee. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
18. "Golos awarded The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award". 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
19. "Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award to political prisoners in Azerbaijan". Den Norske Helsingsforkomite. Den Norske Helsingsforkomite. 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-06.

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