Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award

Not to be confused with other Sakharov Prizes.

The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award, officially known as the Sakharov Freedom Award and named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established in 1980 by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee with the support and consent of Andrei Sakharov himself, to help people who, because of their opinions, beliefs, and conscience are persecuted or imprisoned. The fund's assets are to be used for direct support to those persecuted in their home country, mainly by granting the Sakharov Freedom Award.^[1]

Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award
Presented by	Norwegian Helsinki Committee
First award	1980
Website	nhc.no/en

Laureates

Year	Recipient	Nationality	Notes	Reference
1984	Charta 77	ČSSR		[2]
1996	Sergei Kovalev of the Memorial Human Rights Center	Russian	human rights defender
2002	Eliza Musaeva of the Memorial Human Rights Center	Russian[3]	human rights defender	[4][5]
2002	Amor Mašović of the Commission on Missing Persons	Bosnian		[6][7]
2006	Ales Bialiatski of the Human Rights Center "Viasna"	Belarusian	human rights defender	[8][9]
2007	Svetlana Gannushkina of the Memorial Human Rights Center	Russian	human rights defender	[10][11][12]
2010	Evgeniy Zhovtis of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law	Kazakhstani	human rights defender	[13][14][15]
2012	Lilia Shibanova of the Golos	Russian	election monitoring organization	[16][17][18]
2014	Rasul Jafarov, Leyla Yunus, Anar Mammadli and Intiqam Aliyev	Azerbaijani	human rights activists, political prisoners	[19]
2017	the newspaper Novaya Gazeta and the organization Committee for the Prevention of Torture	Russian	anti-torture fighters	[20]
2019	Hungarian Helsinki Committee	Hungary	human rights organization	[21]
2021	Yury A. Dmitriev	Russian	historian and dissident	[22]
2023	Truth Hounds	Ukraine	Human rights organisation	[23]

See also

• Freedom of speech portal

• Sakharov Prize