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Russia: Memorial Awarded Sakharov Prize

By Free Media Online · October 22, 2009 · Comments Off
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(Moscow) – The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Memorial, a leading Russian human rights organization and to the prominent human rights activists Ludmilla Alekseeva, Sergei Kovalev, and Oleg Orlov, and other Russian human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today.

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