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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10484
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) ep/sakharov prize

EP pays tribute to Arab Spring players

Brussels, 27/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought in 2011 was attributed by the EP Conference of Presidents, on Thursday 27 October, to five militants of the Arab people who played a part in the Arab Spring. The prize goes to: Asmaa Mahfouz (Egypt), Ahmed al-Zubair Ahmed al-Sanusi (Libya), Razan Zaitouneh (Syria), Ali Farzat (Syria) and, posthumously, to Mohamed Bouazizi (Tunisia). They were awarded the prize in “recognition and support...

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