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Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (Omar Havana/AP)
October 22, 2026, 5:39 pm
ICC wins EU’s top rights award as court faces sweeping US sanctions
Sakharov Prize goes to tribunal targeted by Trump, who vowed to dismantle it ‘brick by brick’; Europe pledges support for court’s independence
By AFP and ToI Staff
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (Omar Havana/AP)
October 20, 2026, 2:05 pm
US-sanctioned International Criminal Court shortlisted for EU’s top rights prize
European lawmakers say Sakharov Prize shortlist shows they are committed to safeguarding the work of the ICC, which in 2024 issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu over Gaza war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
FILE - A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish "Justice for Mahsa Amini" as she protests against the death of Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in police custody in Iran, in front of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
December 10, 2023, 1:44 pm
Iran bans Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to receive EU’s top human rights prize
Civil rights monitor says ban placed on relatives of woman whose death in police custody sparked nationwide protests; family’s lawyer allowed to go to France to accept award
By AP
A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran's notorious 'morality police,' in Washington, on October 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
October 19, 2023, 3:59 pm
Mahsa Amini, whose death sparked Iran protest movement, is awarded EU rights prize
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought goes to Kurdish woman who died in police custody after eschewing hijab, which ‘has triggered a women-led movement that is making history’
By AP
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh in her office in Tehran, Iran, on November 1, 2008. (AP/Arash Ashourinia)
September 27, 2020, 7:57 am
Jailed Iran rights lawyer ends hunger strike over health concerns
Nasrin Sotoudeh is serving a 12-year sentence after defending women arrested for protesting compulsory headscarf laws
By AFP
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (3L) visits a part of the Turkish parliament building that was damaged during the July 15 failed coup attempt in Ankara, on October 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN)
October 27, 2016, 2:07 pm
Abbas meeting with Hamas leaders in Qatar
Palestinian leader meets Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal, issues call for Palestinian unity
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Saudi liberal blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced in May 2014 to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for criticizing Saudi Arabia's clerics and ridiculing the country's morality police on his blog. (Amnesty International Canada/Screenshot from campaign ad)
October 29, 2015, 2:53 pm
Jailed, flogged Saudi blogger wins EU rights prize
Raif Badawi, sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, wins standing ovation in European Parliament
By LORNE COOK
Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah upon his release from Tora prison in Cairo, September 15, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
October 3, 2014, 5:09 pm
Egyptian activist loses bid for EU honor over call to kill Israelis
Alaa Abdel Fattah’s nomination for Sakharov Prize withdrawn after discovery of 2012 tweet calling for murder ‘of critical number of Israelis’
By JTA and Elhanan Miller
Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah upon his release from Tora prison in Cairo, September 15, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
September 28, 2014, 6:11 pm
Activist who urged killing Israelis nominated for top EU award
52 European lawmakers propose Alaa Abdel Fattah, who also called for assassination of Egyptians, for Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
By Elhanan Miller
In this Thursday, November 15, 2012 photo, Pakistani girls gather under a poster of Malala Yousufzai in her old school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. The giant poster of her that once emblazoned the wall of the assembly hall has since been removed. (photo credit: AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
October 10, 2013, 6:38 pm
Malala awarded top EU top human rights award
Sakharov Prize goes to 16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot for defying Taliban’s restriction on girls’ education
By Raf Casert
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (photo credit: CC-BY Antônio Cruz, Wikimedia Commons)
December 4, 2012, 10:03 pm
UN human rights chief urges Iran to improve conditions of jailed activist
Navi Pillay expresses concern for life of Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike since mid-October
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh pictured in 2012. (CC BY-sabzphoto, flickr)
November 1, 2012, 1:10 pm
Nine Iranian female prisoners begin hunger strike
Inmates join human rights activist already fasting in protest of beatings, abuse and snap body searches
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