16/01/2020 (Agence Europe) – The Raoul Wallenberg Prize 2020 has been awarded to Amani Ballour, a Syrian paediatrician who ran an underground hospital in the city of Duma, east of Damascus (in the Ghouta oasis) between 2012 and 2018. She is now a refugee in Turkey. The award ceremony will take place at the Council of Europe on Friday 17 January and will be followed by a screening of the National Geographic documentary 'The Cave', nominated for a 2020 Oscar. 17 January marks the 75th anniversary of the arrest of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat stationed in Budapest who used his status to save tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. The prize was instituted in 2012 by the Council of Europe to keep his memory alive. It is awarded every two years and is worth €10 000. (VL)