During a secret vote on Tuesday, 8 October, MEPs on the Foreign Affairs and Development Committees selected the finalists for the 2019 Sakharov Prize (see EUROPE B12338A14).
The first finalists were Brazilian: Chief Raoni, an emblematic figure in the fight against deforestation in the Amazon; Claudelice Silva dos Santos, an environmentalist and human rights defender; and, posthumously, Marielle Franco, an LGBTIQA human rights activist, who was murdered in March 2018. They were...