(AGENPARL) – ven 01 dicembre 2023 None [1] Press service ** European Parliament **
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Press release 01-12-2023 AFET   None [3] 2023 Sakharov Prize: interviews with the laureates and finalists
The award ceremony for this year’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, conferred to Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran, will be held on 12 December at 11.30.
Journalists can express their interest in conducting interviews with the representatives of the Iranian movement Woman, Life, Freedom *who are expected to be present at the award ceremony in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, by registering via this EU survey link [4] by Wednesday 6 December at 18.00 CET* at the latest. Interpretation in English will be provided.
Read more about the European Parliament’s 2023 Sakharov Prize here [5] .
The representatives are:
– Afsoon Najafi, Iranian women’s rights defender;
– Mersedeh Shahinkar, Iranian women’s rights defender.
Representatives of the other finalists for the 2023 Sakharov Prize [6] will also be in Strasbourg during the award ceremony week and available for interviews:
– Women fighting for a free, safe and legal abortion: Justyna Wydrzy?ska (Poland); Colleen McNicholas, (United States);
– Padre Uriel Vallejos, Representative of Monseñor Rolando Álvarez lvarez (Nicaragua) and Sara Henriquez, human rights and women’s rights activist, Representative of Vilma Nuñez de Escorcia (Nicaragua).
Please note that making a request does not guarantee you will be granted an interview .* You will receive confirmation of whether or not you have been given an interview slot only on Friday 8 December, not earlier .
*Interviews will take place on Tuesday 12 December in the afternoon.
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