On Thursday 12 October, the members of the European Parliament’s Committees on Foreign Affairs and Development, and the Sub-Committee on Human Rights named the three finalists for the 2023 Sakharov Prize.
They are the young Iranian woman Jina Mahsa Amini - who died a year ago in the jails of the “morality police” - and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, Vilma Núñez de Escorcia and Monsignor Rolando José Álvarez Lagos of Nicaragua, human rights activists and critics of the Ortega...