The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award, officially known as the Sakharov Freedom Award and named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established...

to the defence of human rights and freedom of thought. Named after Russian scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, the prize was established in December...

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Са́харов; 21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate...

Jiří Wolf Pavel Zajíček In 1984, Charter 77 received the first Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award. Charter 88 – a British movement inspired in part by Charter...

Helsinki Committee awarded Leyla Yunus - together with Rasul Jafarov, Anar Mammadli and Intiqam Aliyev - The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award. Leyla Yunus received...

in outward communication. The same year, GOLOS received the Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. While both Golos and the...

Society since 2006 Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award, an award established in 1980 by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic...

initiative, and the Arolsen Archives. Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award (2023) from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. The Albie Awards (2023) from the Clooney Foundation...

that has cost the lives of six of its journalists. Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award (2017). Awards of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field...

rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic...

Homini Award for his work on human rights;He was chosen as the best human rights defender of 2012. 2014 (October): the Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award of the...

Helsinki Committee awarded Rasul Jafarov - together with Leyla Yunus, Anar Mammadli and Intiqam Aliyev - The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award. "Azerbaijan: EU...

independent election monitoring group Golos. She was awarded the Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award. On 12 May 2016 Lilia was arrested by Belarusian border...

in direct contrast to Andrei Sakharov's famous essay "Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom", published only two years...

anti-war activism, Freedom House awarded Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers its annual Freedom Award in 1963. It supported Andrei Sakharov, other Soviet...

"Soviet Union: freedom at last for Orlov". Nature. 323 (6088): 478. Bibcode:1986Natur.323..478R. doi:10.1038/323478a0. Sakharov, Andrei; Meiman, Naum (March–April...

was awarded by former Czech President and dissident Václav Havel. In 2006, Bialiatski won the Swedish Per Anger Prize, as well as the Andrei Sakharov Freedom...

International. In 2012, she was one of the nominees for the Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award; an award “For Journalism as an Act of Conscience”. In 2013, she...

Swedish government's international award for human rights 2016: Human Rights Award of the City of Weimar 2018: Andrei Sakharov Prize from the American Physical...

physicist Andrei Sakharov on behalf of human rights, to the detriment of his own scientific career and despite the loss of his own personal freedom. The J...

activist, working as a translator for dissident and nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov, and spokesman for the Moscow Helsinki Group and a leader for the rights...

and assistant to the editor in chief at “Merkez”("Center"), “Hurriyet” ("Freedom"), and “Bugün” ("Today"), from 1998 to 2002. Mammadli is a graduate from...

2015 Science Diplomacy Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the 2016 Andrei Sakharov Award for human rights from...

v t e Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award laureates Charta 77 (1984) Kovalev (1996) Musaeva (2002) Mašović (2002) Bialiatski (2006) Gannushkina (2007) Zhovtis...

July 2017. "Solidarity with the civil society in Hungary". "Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award 2019 to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee". 8 November 2019....

has been awarded the Andrei Sakharov Prize by the American Physical Society (APS) "For tireless efforts in defense of human rights and freedom of expression...

C. In 2001, Vladimir Bukovsky received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, awarded annually since 1993 by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation...

dissidents Larisa Bogoraz and Elena Bonner (wife of dissident scientist Andrei Sakharov), and by the octogenarian writer Oleg Volkov, an early inmate of the...

This list of human rights awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for the promotion of human rights. These are moral principles or social...

10, 1975. Gorelik, Gennady (2005). The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-534374-8...