European Parliament President Martin Schulz announced in plenary session on Thursday 27 October that the Conference of the Presidents of the political groups had awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of thought to Nadia Murad Basee Taha and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two young Yezidi women, survivors of so-called Islamic State (Da’esh) enslavement.
The prize will be officially awarded in Strasbourg on 14 December. Other finalists were Turkish journalist Can Dündar and Tatar rights activist...