On Wednesday 20 September, MEPs presented the nominees for the 2023 Sakharov Prize.
In three different proposals, which could eventually be merged, the EPP, S&D and Renew Europe Groups are putting forward the candidacy of Jina Mahsa Amini, the girl who died a year ago in the jails of the morality police, and of the Femme, Vie, Liberté movement. David Lega (Sweden), for the EPP, praised the “extraordinary resilience and courage” of Iranian women, “symbols of women and their freedom...