The President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, has expressed the European institution’s pride in awarding the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Ilham Tohti, a Uighur academic sentenced to life imprisonment in China (see EUROPE B12393A1).
“We are proud to have awarded the Sakharov Prize to a representative of the Uyghur people, who is in prison”, said Mr Sassoli in an interview with EUROPE.
On Monday, the Chinese authorities adopted sanctions against five MEPs and...