Jounalists group interview with Leonid VOLKOV, Chief of Staff of the 2021 Sakharov Prize laureate Alexei Navalny

SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE) - EP President; HAIDAR, Ensaf

Sakharov Prize Network Mid-term Conference.   Opening speech

LUNACEK, Ulrike (Greens/EFA, AT), HAIDAR, Ensaf

Sakharov Prize Network Mid-term Conference.   Opening session

Lamiya Aji Bashar, an 18-year-old Yazidi girl who escaped her Islamic State group enslavers, talks to The Associated Press in northern Iraq in this May 5, 2016, photo. During more than a year of being passed from one militant to another, Bashar attempted to flee many times. On her fifth attempt, in March, she finally reached fighters in a Kurdish-controlled region, a safe haven for Yazidis, but only after a mine exploded, killing two girls fleeing with her and leaving Bashar's face scarred and blinding her in one eye. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko)

Recording of the Sakharov Prize 2001 Award ceremony for Izzat Ghazzawi - Palestine, Nurit Peled-Elhanan - Israel, Dom Zacarias Kamwenho - Angola

Sakharov Prize 2001: Award ceremony Izzat GHAZZAWI - Palestine, Nurit PELED-ELHANAN - Israel, Dom Zacarias KAMWENHO - Angola

¡BASTA YA! was recognised by the European Parliament that same year for its active campaigning for human rights, democracy and tolerance in the Basque Country. Spokesperson Fernando SAVATER represented the organisation at the European Parliament.

Sakharov Prize 2000: Award ceremony ¡BASTA YA! - Spain

Recording of the Sakharov Prize 1999 Award ceremony for Xanana Gusmão - East Timor

Sakharov Prize 1999: Award ceremony Xanana GUSMAO (Gusmão) - East Timor

Recording of the Sakharov Prize 1998: Award ceremony Ibrahim Rugova - Kosovo

Sakharov Prize 1998: Award ceremony Ibrahim RUGOVA - Kosovo

Recording of the award ceremony for Salima GHEZALI, Algeria

Sakharov Prize 1997: Award ceremony Salima GHEZALI - Algeria

Recording of the Sakharov Prize ceremony 1996: Award ceremony for Wei Jingsheng (in absentia) - China. His wife Shan-Shan Wei-Blank received the prize. At the time of his Sakharov Prize award in 1996 he was still in prison.

Sakharov Prize 1996: Award ceremony Wei Jingsheng (in absentia) - China

Recording of the Sakharov Prize 1995 Award ceremony for Leyla ZANA (in absentia), Turkey. Her husband, Medi ZANA, received the prize.

Sakharov Prize 1995: Award ceremony Leyla ZANA (in absentia), Turkey

This is a recording of the Sakharov Prize 1994 Award ceremony for Taslima Nasreen - Bangladesh

Sakharov Prize 1994: Award ceremony Taslima NASREEN - Bangladesh

Recording of the Sakharov Prize 1993 Award ceremony for Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sakharov Prize 1993: Award ceremony Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Recording of the Award ceremony Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo in 1992. The European Parliament recognised Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo with the Sakharov Prize in 1992. Hebe de Bonafini, who was elected leader of the undivided Madres in 1979, and was still leading the association, accepted the Sakharov Prize award on behalf of the mothers' children 'who were the first to struggle for freedom'.

Sakharov Prize 1992: Award ceremony Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo - Argentina

This recording shows the Sakharov Prize 1991 Award ceremony for Adem DEMACI, Kosovo. In 1991 Demaçi was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament for his integrity in his opposition to 'an authoritarian and intolerant regime'. Demaçi, accepting the prize as homage to the people of Kosovo, stated that 'freedom of speech is the first, crucial step towards democracy. Without freedom of speech there is no dialogue, without dialogue the truth cannot be established, and without the truth progress is impossible.'

Sakharov Prize 1991: Award ceremony Adem DEMACI (Demaçi), Kosovo

This recording shows the Sakharov Prize 1990 Award ceremony to Aung San Suu Kyi (in absentia), Burma/Myanmar. AUNG SAN SUU KYI's leadership of Myanmar/Burma's pro-democracy struggle was recognised by the Sakharov Prize in 1990. Husband Michael ARIS and son Kim received the prize.

Sakharov Prize 1990: Award ceremony Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma/Myanmar (in absentia)

Recording of the Sakharov Prize 1989 Award ceremony for Alexander Dubček After the 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia, Dubček was elected chair of the federal assembly from 1989 to 1992. Addressing the European Parliament in January 1990 as he received his Sakharov Prize, Dubček noted that "even during the most difficult moments of their history, the nations which make up my country have never ceased to feel that they are part of humanity's great struggle for freedom' and from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution, 'the ideals of freedom, sovereignty and social justice remained alive".

Sakharov Prize 1989: Award ceremony Alexander Dubček - 1989, Slovakia

Anatoli Marchenko (posthumously, represented by his widow,Larisa BOGORAZ) - 1988, Russia: His widow, Larissa Bogoraz, herself an activist and a Sakharov Prize nominee, received the prize on his behalf, which was awarded to him posthumously in 1988, the year the European Parliament created the Sakharov Prize. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (in absentia, represented by his grand son, Mandla MANDELA) - 1988, South Africa: He was the first, along with Soviet dissident Anatoly Marchenko, to be awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize in 1988. At the time he was still being kept under house arrest by South Africa's apartheid regime, which imprisoned him for 27 years for his fight against racism.

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