The democratic opposition in Belarus, represented by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Svetlana Alexievich, Maryia Kalesnikava, Volha Kavalkova, Veranika Tsapkala, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Ales Bialiatski, Siarhei Dyleuski, Stsiapan Putsila and Mikola Statkevich, was awarded, on Wednesday 16 December, the 2020 Sakhahrov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
This is the third time that Belarusians have received this prize awarded by the European Parliament, after the president of the Belarusian Journalists’...