MEPs at the European Parliament's foreign affairs and development committees voted on Tuesday 11 October to decide on the shortlist for the three finalists for the 2016 Sakharov Prize. These are Can Dündar, Moustafa Djemilev, and Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar. The fourth candidate in the running, but who did not make to the shortlist, was Ilham Tohti, an activist who fights for Uighur rights in China.
Can Dündar was nominated by the Greens/EFA, EFDD and GUE Groups. He...