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The European Parliament awards the 2018 Sakharov Prize to the imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov at a ceremony in the presence of his cousin Natalia Kaplan and his lawyer Dmitri Dinze. IMAGES
The combination of the two winners Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, Hindu and Muslim, Indian and Pakistani, was chosen because they join in a common struggle for education and against extremism.
A Russian court sentences top human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov to two and a half years in jail for denouncing Russia's offensive against Ukraine. The judge finds Orlov guilty for "committing a crime under article 280" ("calls for extremist activity") and orders "imprisonment for a period of two years and six months." Orlov was accused of discrediting the Russian army after writing a column written for the French online publication Mediapart, and fined in October after a first trial. IMAGES
Head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, says they "hope" Iran would release jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi so she could attend the prize ceremony in December. "If the Iranian authorities make the right decision, they will release her," she tells a press conference after announcing Mohammadi was this year's prize winner. SOUNDBITE
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to imprisoned Iranian women's rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi, "for her fight against the opression of women in Iran", and "freedom for all" announces the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. IMAGES
People gather in Moscow ahead of the funeral of a high-profile military blogger and staunch supporter of Moscow's assault on Ukraine, Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed an explosion at a cafe in Russia's second city, Saint Petersburg, on April 2nd. IMAGES
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