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	Andrei Sakharov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union.
		Sakharov died of a heart attack in 1989 at the age of 68, and was interred in the Vostryakovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
		The Sakharov Prize, established in 1985 and awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, was named in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrei_Sakharov (1250 words)

	Andrei Sakharov hero file
		Sakharov, who is the first Soviet citizen to receive the peace prize, is labelled "a Judas" and "laboratory rat of the West" by the Soviet authorities and prevented from travelling to Oslo to receive the award.
		Sakharov resorts to hunger strikes to force the authorities to allow her to travel to the West for treatment but is again forcibly hospitalised and denied further contact with Bonner.
		Sakharov is elected to the Presidium of the Academy of Science and as a member of the Congress of People's Deputies (the Soviet parliament), where he becomes joint leader of the democratic opposition faction.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/sakharov.html (3734 words)

	NEWS
		Immediately after announcing the decision regarding this year's Sakharov prize winner, the largest parliamentary faction consisting of Christian Democrat parties as well as People's parties in the European Parliament, which nominated B2-92 for Sakharov Prize, also announced that Radio B2-92 was the winner of this year's Robert Schuman Medal.
		Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was established during his exile in the town of Gorky.
		In a letter addressed to the President of the European Parliament at the time, Lord Plumb, Sakharov stressed that this prize was, in his view, a recognition of his struggle for human rights, but that it was also an encouragement for all of those dedicated to this goal.
	www.b92.net /media/news/281099.shtml (272 words)

	AIP_Sakharov_Photo_Chronology
		Ivan Sakharov and Maria Domukhovskaya -- Andrei Sakharov's grandfather and grandmother -- in 1882.
		Sakharov’s article “The Danger of Thermonuclear War” is published in the West, and a new campaign is begun against Sakharov and Bonner in the USSR.
		Sakharov is elected co-chairman of the Interregional Group—the democratic opposition in the Congress.
	people.bu.edu /gorelik/AIP_Sakharov_Photo_Chrono/AIP_Sakharov_Photo_Chronology.html (3502 words)

	Human Rights: Sakharov Prize
		Since 1988, in the spirit of Andrei Sakharov, the European Parliament has awarded the annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in order to honour individuals or organisations for their efforts on behalf of human rights and fundamental freedoms and against oppression and injustice.
		From Gorky, where he was living in exile, Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), the renowned physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences, dissident and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner, sent a message to the European Parliament saying how moved he was that it intended to create a prize for freedom of thought which would bear his name.
		In awarding the Sakharov Prize, the European Parliament honours, in particular, outstanding achievements in the fight to protect freedom of thought and expression against intolerance, fanaticism and hatred.
	www.europarl.eu.int /comparl/afet/droi/sakharov/inspiration_en.htm (314 words)

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		October 28, 1975 # 2715-A Central Committee of the CPSU On SAKHAROV's reaction to the news of his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and to the statement of Soviet scientists published in the newspaper "Izvestiya".
		Now, after the Helsinki conference and after the award of the Peace Prize to me, I hope better conditions have been created for such activity." Sakharov explained that "the task of the West is to use the tools it has at hand to assist the Soviet Union in fulfilling its obligations.
		SAKHAROV is especially concerned by the fact that the statement was signed by a great number of well-known scientists who are members of the Academy of Science.
	www.yale.edu /annals/sakharov/sakharov_english_txt/e102.txt (429 words)

	EUROPA - Bulletin EU 10-2004 (en): 1.2.1
		Sakharov Prize for 1995 awarded on 14 October.
		Mrs Zana, who was freed on 9 June 2004, had been the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish National Assembly in 1994 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the National Security Court in Ankara, together with three colleagues, on the grounds of belonging to an 'illegal organisation'.
		On 18 January 1996, her husband received the Sakharov Prize on her behalf from Mr Hänsch, President of the European Parliament at the time.
	europa.eu.int /abc/doc/off/bull/en/200410/p102001.htm (122 words)

	NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL - NEWS
		The publicity that this prize is bringing is unvaluable for theese brave, peaceful ladies supporting their inprisoned husbands.
		The prize will be handed out at a formal ceremony in the chamber of the European Parliament in December this year.
		The Sakharov Prize was instituted in 1988 and is handed out once a year by the Foreign affairs committee in the European Parliament to a person or an organisation which is defending democracy, human rights and the freedom of press.
	www.netforcuba.org /News-EN/2005/Oct/News821.htm (266 words)

	EU@UN - EP - Sakharov Prize for 2003 awarded to UN in memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for 2003 has been awarded to "UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and all staff of the United Nations in special memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello and many other UN officials who have lost their lives in carrying out their work for peace in the world".
		The prize will be awarded to Kofi Annan on 29 January 2004 at a formal sitting during the UN Secretary General's visit to Parliament in Brussels.
		The Sakharov Prize, first awarded in 1988, is conferred upon individuals or organisations who have made a decisive contribution to the fight for human rights.
	www.europa-eu-un.org /articles/cs/article_2955_cs.htm (297 words)

	Andrei Sakharov - Autobiography
		In the foreword to my book Sakharov Speaks, as well as in My Country and the World, I have already described the development of my socio-political views in the period 1953-68 and the dramatic events which contributed to or were the expression of this development.
		After receiving the prize, Sakharov continued to work for human rights and to make statements to the West through Western correspondents in Moscow.
		Sakharov resorted to hunger strikes to secure medical treatment for Bonner, who was finally given permission to leave the Soviet Union for heart surgery in 1985.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1975/sakharov-autobio.html (1687 words)

	Mai nominated for 'Sakharov Prize' for her anti-oppression crusade:- - India News - Webindia123.com
		Pakistan's alleged gang rape victim Mukhtaran Mai, who attracted much international media attention after her resolve to fight for justice, is among the contenders for this year's 'Sakharov Prize', instituted by the European Parliament (EP) recognising efforts to fight against injustice and oppression.
		Prominent among the recipients of earlier Sakharov Prizes are: Nelson Mandela (1988), Aung San Suu Ky (1990), Tasleema Nasreen (1994) and Kofi Annan (2003).
		The Prize, carrying a cash award of 50,000 Euros, is given to exceptional individuals and organizations fighting against intolerance, fanaticism and oppression.
	news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=117764&cat=India (374 words)

	Statement by Minister Cowen to European Parliament on the presentation of 2003 Sakharov Prize to U.N.S.G. Annan - 29 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a signal honour to take part in this sitting of the European Parliament for the award of the Sakharov Prize 2003 to Secretary-General Annan and the entire UN staff and to commemorate in particular Mr.
		The enduring value of the Sakharov Prize is that it evokes continually the memory and example of an outstanding human rights advocate who lived and worked in circumstances where such advocacy was considered an act of dissidence.
		This prize in his name sends out every year a clear signal of support from Europe to those who are struggling for peace, and human rights, often in the face of significant hostility and in conditions of personal risk.
	foreignaffairs.gov.ie /information/display.asp?ID=1426 (1302 words)

	Khaleej Times Online
		She is among 10 individuals and organisations initially nominated for the Sakharov Prize for 2005 carrying a cash award of Euro 50,000.
		The prize will be awarded at a ceremony to be held in Strasbourg on December 10, the day on which the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948.
		Prominent among the recipients of Sakharov Prize are Nelson Mandela (1988), Aung San Suu Ky (1990), Tasleema Nasreen (1994) and Kofi Annan (2003).
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/September/subcontinent_September763.xml§ion=subcontinent&col= (384 words)

	EPP-ED Group: 23/10/2003 : European Parliament awards 2003 Sakharov Prize to Kofi Annan and the entire staff of the ...
		The Secretary-General of the United Nations and all UN officials are to be awarded this year's Sakharov Prize, it was decided at today's Conference of Presidents, the meeting of political group leaders in the European Parliament.
		The prize is also a way of honouring the memory of the UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello, murdered in Iraq, and all UN staff who have lost their lives on UN peace missions.
		Since 1988 the European Parliament has awarded the annual Sakharov Prize for Intellectual Freedom in order to honour people and organisations for their contribution to human rights and basic freedoms, and against repression and injustice.
	www.epp-ed.org /Press/showpr.asp?PRControlDocTypeID=1&PRControlID=2296&PRContentID=4418&PRContentLG=en (331 words)

	Prima-News
		The European parliament awarded on October 23 the Andrei Sakharov prize to Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, a key promoter of the Varela Project.
		The prize was awarded to the Cuban despite a strong resistance from the Communist, Socialist, Green and European left-wing parties.
		The winner dedicated the prize to “political prisoners, the Cuban people and all those who work for democracy”.
	www.prima-news.ru /eng/news/news/2002/10/24/21197.html (94 words)

	UN: World Body Wins Sakharov Prize In Memory Of Slain Iraq Envoy
		The prize was awarded in memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top UN envoy in Iraq who was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad in August.
		The parliament awarded the prize collectively to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his staff "out of respect for their work, which is often performed in difficult conditions and at risk to their own lives."
		The 15-year-old Sakharov Prize is named for Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and awarded annually to individuals or groups fighting for human rights and freedom.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/10/iraq-031023-rferl-163830.htm (782 words)

	UK Independence Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, supports the name of Alexander Yessenin-Volpin, the nominee of the INDEPENDENCE and DEMOCRACY Group, for the European Parliament's SAKHAROV prize.
		Not only was he one of the first active participants of the Human Rights' movement in the USSR but he has also defined most clearly its goals and tasks, its non-violent character.
		And when the communist system has finally collapsed, it was not just a triumph for all of the freedom-loving people across the world, it was an ultimate triumph of the ideas once developed by Alexander Yessenin-Volpin.
	www.ukip.org /abc_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=1022 (510 words)

	Belarus: Journalists Awarded EU's Prestigious Sakharov Prize - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The prize was received by a BAZh delegation headed by its president, Zhanna Litvina.
		Addressing the parliament, Litvina said the prize was a "very important" recognition not only of the importance of the free media in Belarus, but the right of its citizens to receive objective, noncensored information.
		The prize was created in 1988 in honor of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, a Russian nuclear physicist.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/12/458CE598-FE63-4654-8C28-6313ACE20DD4.html (838 words)

	GREENS/EFA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Greens/EFA Group said that awarding the Sakharov prize to Natalya Estemirova would be an import symbolic gesture in favour of a political solution to the Chechen conflict and against the ongoing impunity towards grave human rights violations in the country.
		This organisation was founded in 1989 at the time of Perestroika by the dissident and political prisoner Andrej Sakharov, with the aim of defending the rights and fundamental freedoms of the Soviet citizens and to transmit information on the repressive system of power that was in place.
		On a daily basis Natalya works to collect information that is useful and necessary in the pursuit of numerous cases of human rights violations in Chechnya: disappearances, kidnappings, executions, etc. To conduct her investigations she has to travel a lot — under extremely difficult and precarious conditions in a country devastated by bombs.
	www.greens-efa.org /en/press/detail.php?id=2022&lg=en (417 words)

	EPP-ED Group: Press Release
		The Sakharov prize was created in 1988 by the European Parliament in honour of Andrei Sakharov to give recognition to persons and organisations that struggle to defend human rights and fundamental freedoms.
		The award of the Sakharov prize to "Basta Ya!" honours the struggle to defend democracy and human rights in a Member State of the European Union.
		Concluding his remarks Galeote said that "in its eleven years of existence the Sakharov prize has been awarded amongst others, to Nelson Mandela, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Ibrahim Rugova and last year to the leader of Timorese independence, Mr.Xanana Gusmao.
	www.epp-ed.org /Press/pcom00/com480_en.asp (371 words)

	RIGHTS-CUBA: Ladies in White Share Sakharov Prize
		The prize, named after late Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a physicist, is awarded annually to groups dedicated to defending human rights, protecting minorities, and promoting international cooperation, democracy and the rule of law.
		The award, which carries a cash prize of 50,000 euros (around 60,000 dollars), will be bestowed by the European Parliament in a ceremony held in the northeastern French city of Strasbourg on or around Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
		But diplomats in Havana predicted that the prize would only exacerbate the irritation of local authorities over European support for dissidents, whose small organisations are illegal and who the government considers "mercenaries" on the payroll of the United States.
	www.ipsnews.org /news.asp?idnews=30786 (906 words)

	LA NUEVA CUBA
		In presenting the 2002 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Paya in Strasbourg, France, EU Parliament President Pat Cox paid tribute to Paya's work for "democracy and peace in Cuba." Cox also thanked Cuban dictator Fidel Castro for allowing Paya to travel to Strasbourg to receive the award and address the parliament.
		Paya emphasized that the prize was not for him but for the people of Cuba who supported the campaign for political rights within the communist-run nation.
		The Sakharov award is named for former Soviet dissident, nuclear physicist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov.
	www.lanuevacuba.com /archivo/notic-02-12-2213.htm (677 words)

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		WEI is nominated for 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and his speech at the 15th anniversary of the Sakharov Prize Ceremony in European Parliment
		WEI has been nominated in almost every year for the Peace Prize, not just for the time he spent in jail for his belief in Chinese human rights and democracy, but also for his tireless work under extreme difficulty after his exile in 1997.
		I was awarded the Sakharov Prize when I was still locked in the communist's dark cell, suffering for demanding freedom and democracy for my people.
	weijingsheng.org /report/nl6.html (1707 words)

	Parliament nominates press freedom group for Sakharov Prize :: Charter'97 :: News :: 28/09/2005
		The candidates who made it to the shortlist had been proposed by the socialist, conservative and liberal groups in the parliament, and the winner will be picked by the Parliament`s conference of group presidents on 27 October.
		The socialist PES candidate is the Nigerian female lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim, who defends women and youngsters in her country sentenced to stoning, whipping or amputation under Sharia law.
		Meanwhile, the EPP`s choice for the Sakharov prize is Ladies in White, a group of women which fights for the release of their husbands who are political prisoners in Cuba.
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2005/09/28/prize (684 words)

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