Parliament presents the nominees for the 2024 Sakharov Prize

Every year, the European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. The political groups will present the nominees for the Sakharov Prize 2024 in a joint meeting of the foreign affairs and development committees and the human rights subcommittee in Brussels on 26 September. On 17 October, the foreign affairs and development committees will announce the three finalists and Parliament President Roberta Metsola and the political group leaders will take a decision on the final laureate on 24 October. In 2023, the prize was awarded to Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran. The nominees for the 2024 Sakharov Prize are: - María Corina Machado as the leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela and President-elect Edmundo González Urrutia, representing all Venezuelans inside and outside the country fighting for the re-institution of freedom and democracy, Venezuela, nominated by the EPP group - “Women wage peace" and "Women of the sun" and their co-founders Yael Admi and Reem Hajajreh, Israel/Palestine, nominated by the S&D group - Elon Musk, United States, nominated by the Patriots for Europe group and by Europe of Sovereign nations group - Edmundo González Urrutia, Venezuela, nominated by the ECR group - Women Wage Peace & Women of the Sun, Israel/Palestine, nominated by the Renew Europe group - Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu, Azerbaijan, nominated by The Greens/EFA group - Journalists in Palestine (Hamza & Wael Al-Dahdouh, Plestia Alaqad, Shireen Abu Akleh and Ain Media in honour of Yasser Murtaja & Roshdi Sarraj), Palestine, nominated by The Left group. Read more about the Sakharov Prize: www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20240913S…

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