Sakharov Prize
Laureates

Sakharov Prize

Section Title: Laureates
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Year	Recipient	Nationality	Notes	Reference

1988	Nelson Mandela	South Africa	Anti-apartheid activist and later President of South Africa

Anatoly Marchenko (posthumously)	Soviet Union	Soviet dissident, author and human rights activist

1989	Alexander Dubček	Czechoslovakia	Slovak politician, attempted to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring

1990	Aung San Suu Kyi	Burma	Opposition politician and a former General Secretary of the National League for Democracy

1991	Adem Demaçi	Kosovo	Kosovo Albanian Politician and long-term political prisoner

1992	Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo	Argentina	Association of Argentine mothers whose children disappeared during the Dirty War

1993	Oslobođenje	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Popular newspaper that defended Bosnia and Herzegovina as a multi-ethnic state

1994	Taslima Nasrin	Bangladesh	Ex-doctor, feminist author

1995	Leyla Zana	Turkey	Politician of Kurdish descent from Southeastern Turkey, who was imprisoned for 10 years for being member of PKK.

1996	Wei Jingsheng	China	An activist in the Chinese democracy movement

1997	Salima Ghezali	Algeria	Journalist and writer, an activist of women's rights, human rights and democracy in Algeria

1998	Ibrahim Rugova	Kosovo	Kosovo Albanian politician, the first President of Kosovo

1999	Xanana Gusmão	East Timor	Former militant who was the first President of East Timor

2000	¡Basta Ya!	Spain	Organisation uniting individuals of various political positions against terrorism

2001	Nurit Peled-Elhanan	Israel	Peace activist

Izzat Ghazzawi	Palestine	Writer, professor

Dom Zacarias Kamwenho	Angola	Archbishop and peace activist

2002	Oswaldo Payá	Cuba	Political activist and dissident

2003	Kofi Annan	Ghana	Nobel Peace Prize recipient and seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations

United Nations	N/A (International)

2004	Belarusian Association of Journalists	Belarus	Non-governmental organisation "aiming to ensure freedom of speech and rights of receiving and distributing information and promoting professional standards of journalism"

2005	Ladies in White	Cuba	Opposition movement, relatives of jailed dissidents

Reporters Without Borders	N/A (International)	France-based non-governmental organisation advocating freedom of the press

Hauwa Ibrahim	Nigeria	Human rights lawyer

2006	Alaksandar Milinkievič	Belarus	Politician chosen by United Democratic Forces of Belarus as the joint candidate of the opposition in the presidential elections of 2006

2007	Salih Mahmoud Osman	Sudan	Human rights lawyer

2008	Hu Jia	China	Activist and dissident

2009	Memorial	Russia	International civil rights and historical society

2010	Guillermo Fariñas	Cuba	Doctor, journalist and political dissident

2011	Asmaa Mahfouz	Egypt	Five representatives of the Arab people, in recognition and support of their drive for freedom and human rights.

Ahmed al-Senussi	Libya

Razan Zaitouneh	Syria

Ali Farzat

Mohamed Bouazizi (posthumously)	Tunisia

2012	Jafar Panahi	Iran	Iranian activists, Sotoudeh is a lawyer and Panahi is a film director.

Nasrin Sotoudeh

2013	Malala Yousafzai	Pakistan	Campaigner for women's rights and education

2014	Denis Mukwege	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Gynecologist treating victims of gang rape

2015	Raif Badawi	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabian writer and activist and the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals

2016	Nadia Murad Basee	Iraq	Yazidi human rights activists and former abductees of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Lamiya Aji Bashar

2017	Democratic Opposition in Venezuela	Venezuela	Members of the country's National Assembly (Juan Requesens, Julio Borges and others) and all political prisoners as listed by Foro Penal Venezolano represented by Leopoldo López, Antonio Ledezma, Daniel Ceballos [es], Yon Goicoechea, Lorent Saleh, Alfredo Ramos [es] and Andrea González.

2018	Oleg Sentsov	Ukraine	Film director, symbol of the struggle for the release of political prisoners held in Russia and around the world

Sentence(s)

The 1990 Sakharov Prize was given to, Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.

final_sentence: The 1990 Sakharov Prize was given to, Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.