Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism - Award Ceremony

Screening of the film ' All Static & Noise ' marking the 10 years anniversary of the imprisonment of Sakharov Prize Laureate Ilham Tohti

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Jewher ILHAM, the daughter of Sakharov Prize laureate Tohti ILHAM

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Jewher Ilham, the daughter of Sakharov Prize laureate Ilham Tohti. Arrival, welcome and roundtable. Ilham Tohti, an Uyghur economist fighting for the rights of China’s Uyghur minority, is the winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2019. In 2014, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on separatism-related charges. Despite this, he remains a voice of moderation and reconciliation. Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been detained in a network of internment camps.

Roberta METSOLA, EP President receives Jewher Ilham, the daughter of Sakharov Prize laureate Ilham Tohti

Live replay of the award ceremony of 2019 Sakharov Prize during the EP plenary sitting (16-19 December) in Strasbourg. Mr Tohti, 2019 Sakharov Prize, who is currently imprisoned for life in China on separatism-related charges, is represented by his daughter Jewher Ilham. She makes a statement and receives the prize from David SASSOLI, EP President. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check Against delivery.

Plenary session: Award of the Sakharov Prize 2019 - Statement by David SASSOLI, EP President, and by Jewher Ilham, daughter of Ilham Tohti (12.15 - 12.32)

Ilham Tohti, advocate of China's Uyghur minority and human rights activist, currently imprisoned for life in China, is awarded the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by David SASSOLI, EP President, during the plenary session (16-19 December 2019) of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

2019 Sakharov Prize: extracts from the ceremony of award to Ilham Tohti, advocate of China's Uyghur minority

Jewher Ilham, daughter of IlhamTohti, speaks to the press on the occasion of the Sakharov Prize 2019 awarded to her father, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Interview of Jewher Ilham, daughter of IlhamTohti, Sakharov Prize 2019 laureate on the occasion of the Sakharov Prize 2019 awarded to her father, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Live replay of the EP plenary sitting in Strasbourg, 16th until 19th December. Award of the Sakharov Prize 2019 - Award of the prize

Plenary session: Award of the Sakharov Prize 2019 - Award of the Prize (12.32 - 12.35)

The European Parliament organises a seminar with journalists and Jewher Ilham daughter of Ilham Tohti, 2019 Sakharov Prize laureate, in Strasbourg and also the other finalists.

EP Journalists Seminar with the laureate's daughter and the finalists of the 2019 Sakharov Prize: extracts from the seminar

Jewher Ilham and David SASSOLI, EP President, give a joint press conference after the award ceremony of the Sakharov Prize organised during the plenary session (16-19 December 2019) in Strasbourg. Mr Tohti, 2019 Sakharov Prize, who is currently imprisoned for life in China on separatism-related charges, is represented by his daughter Jewher Ilham. She made a statement and received the prize from David SASSOLI, EP President.

Press conference by David SASSOLI, EP President and Jewher Ilham, daughter of Ilham Tohti, 2019 Sakharov Prize

MEPs of Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), Committee on Development (DEVE) and Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) exchange views with Jewher Ilham, daughter of Ilham Tohti, the 2019 Sakharov Prize laureate, during a joint meeting in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Ilham Tohti is a Uyghur scholar and human rights activist, currently imprisoned for life in China.

Exchange of views with Jewher Ilham, daughter of Ilham Tohti, 2019 Sakharov Prize laureate: extracts from the joint meeting of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Development and Subcommittee on Human Rights

Illustrative footage during the World Uyghur Congress, and presence of Jewher IIham, daughter of Ilham Tohti.

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