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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11411

16 October 2015
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) sakharov
Badawi, Venezuelan opposition and Nemtsov finalists

Brussels, 15/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 15 October, the MEPs of the committee on foreign affairs, the committee on development and the human rights sub-committee named Raef Badawi, the democratic opposition in Venezuela and Boris Nemtsov as the finalists for the Sakharov human rights prize 2015.

The militant Saudi blogger, Raef Badawi, who has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, 1,000 lashes and a heavy fine for having insulted Islamic values, was put forward by the S&D,...

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