Year |
Recipient |
Nationality |
Notes |
Reference |
1988 |
Mandela, NelsonNelson Mandela |
တောင်အာဖရိက |
Anti-apartheid activist and later President of South Africa |
[၃] |
1988 |
Marchenko, AnatolyAnatoly Marchenko (posthumously) |
Soviet Union |
Soviet dissident, author and humans rights activist |
[၃] |
1989 |
Dubček, AlexanderAlexander Dubček |
Czechoslovakia |
Slovak politician, attempted to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring |
[၃] |
1990 |
အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် |
မြန်မာ |
Opposition politician and a former General Secretary of the National League for Democracy |
[၄] |
1991 |
Demaçi, AdemAdem Demaçi |
Kosovo |
Politician and long-term political prisoner |
[၃] |
1992 |
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo |
အာဂျင်တီးနား |
Association of Argentine mothers whose children disappeared during the Dirty War |
[၄] |
1993 |
Oslobođenje |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Popular newspaper, continued to publish after its office building was destroyed in Sarajevo |
[၄] |
1994 |
Nasrin, TaslimaTaslima Nasrin |
Bangladesh |
Ex-doctor, feminist author |
[၄] |
1995 |
Zana, LeylaLeyla Zana |
တူရကီ |
A female politician of Kurdish descent from Eastern Turkey, who was imprisoned for 10 years for speaking her native language of Kurdish in the Turkish Parliament |
[၃] |
1996 |
Jingsheng, WeiWei Jingsheng |
တရုတ် |
An activist in the Chinese democracy movement |
[၄] |
1997 |
Ghezali, SalimaSalima Ghezali |
Algeria |
Journalist and writer, an activist of women's rights, human rights and democracy in Algeria |
[၄] |
1998 |
Rugova, IbrahimIbrahim Rugova |
Kosovo |
Albanian politician, the first President of Kosovo |
[၃] |
1999 |
Gusmão, XananaXanana Gusmão |
East Timor |
Former militant who was the first President of East Timor |
[၅] |
2000 |
Basta !¡Basta Ya! |
စပိန် |
Organisation uniting individuals of various political positions against terrorism |
[၆] |
2001 |
Peled-Elhanan, NuritNurit Peled-Elhanan |
Israel |
Peace activist |
[၃] |
2001 |
Ghazzawi, IzzatIzzat Ghazzawi |
Palestine |
Writer, arrested several times by Israeli authorities for "political activities" |
[၃] |
2001 |
Kamwenho, Dom ZacariasDom Zacarias Kamwenho |
Angola |
Archbishop and peace activist |
[၃] |
2002 |
Payá, OswaldoOswaldo Payá |
Cuba |
Political activist and dissident |
[၇] |
2003 |
Annan, KofiKofi Annan (& United Nations) |
— |
Nobel Peace Prize recipient and seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations |
[၃] |
2004 |
Belarusian Association of Journalists |
Belarus |
Non-governmental organisation "aiming to ensure freedom of speech and rights of receiving and distributing information and promoting professional standards of journalism" |
[၈] |
2005 |
Ladies in White |
Cuba |
Opposition movement, relatives of jailed dissidents |
[၉] |
2005 |
Reporters Without Borders |
— |
France-based non-governmental organisation advocating freedom of the press |
[၉] |
2005 |
Ibrahim, HauwaHauwa Ibrahim |
Nigeria |
Human rights lawyer |
[၉] |
2006 |
Milinkievič, AlaksandarAlaksandar Milinkievič |
Belarus |
Politician chosen by United Democratic Forces of Belarus as the joint candidate of the opposition in the presidential elections of 2006 |
[၁၀] |
2007 |
Mahmoud Osman, SalihSalih Mahmoud Osman |
Sudan |
Human rights lawyer |
[၄] |
2008 |
Jia, HuHu Jia |
တရုတ် |
Activist and dissident |
[၁၁] |
2009 |
Memorial |
Russia |
International civil rights and historical society |
[၁၂] |
2010 |
Fariñas, GuillermoGuillermo Fariñas |
Cuba |
Doctor, journalist and political dissident |
[၁၃] |
2011 |
Asmaa Mahfouz, Ahmed al-Senussi, Razan Zaitouneh, Ali Farzat, Mohamed Bouazizi (posthumously) |
Egypt Libya Syria Syria Tunisia |
Five representatives of the Arab people, in recognition and support of their drive for freedom and human rights. |
[၁၄] |