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The Sakharov Prize is awarded annually on or around 10 December, the day on which the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed.

1 Recipients

Past recipients of the prize have been the following:

• 1988: Nelson Mandela and Anatoli Marchenko (posthumously)
• 1989: Alexander Dubcek
• 1990: Aung San Suu Kyi
• 1991: Adem Demaci
• 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (The Mothers of the Mayo Square)
• 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.: Oslobodjenje
• 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an: Taslima NasrinTaslima Nasrin also known as Taslima Nasreen (born 25 August 1962 in Mymensigh, Bangladesh) is a writer. Taslima Nasrin stands up for equal rights for women and opposes oppression of non-Islamic minorities in Islamic societies, like in her home country Ba
• 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja: Leyla Zana
• 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan: Wei JingshengWei Jingsheng is an activist in the Chinese democracy movement most prominent for authoring the document the Fifth Modernization for which he was sent to prison. After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China released Jingsheng for
• 1997: Salima Ghezali
• 1998: Ibrahim Rugova
• 1999: Xanana Gusmão
• 2000: Basta Ya
• 2001: Nurit Peled , Izzat Ghazzawi , Dom Zacarias Kamwenho
• 2002: Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas
• 2003: United Nations