EU Awards Top Rights Prize To Belarus Opposition

By Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent Worthy News (Worthy News) – The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. They received the Sakharov Prize for their challenge to what EU leaders view as Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s long, hard-line reign. The president of the EU’s European Parliament, David Sassoli, called it an “honor to announce that the women and men of the democratic opposition in Belarus are the 2020 Sakharov Prize laureates.” In a statement, he said that “They have on their side something that brute force can … Read more

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