EU Parliament - 2005 Sakharov prize winners

The Cuban opposition movement "Damas de Blanco", the Nigerian human rights lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim and the international organisation "Reporters without Borders" are this year's joint winners of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament decided to award the prize to all three short-listed candidates.

"Women in White" holds peaceful demonstrations every Sunday against the detention of their husbands and sons who are imprisoned for political reasons. Hauwa Ibrahim is a lawyer defending women who face being stoned to death for adultery and young people who face amputation for theft under Islamic Sharia law. Reporters without Borders campaigns for press freedom throughout the world and their defence of journalists against censorship and harassment.

For more information, see Sakharov 2005 prize winners

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