Nelson MANDELA, Leo TINDEMANS, Willy DE CLERCQ, Simone VEIL

Nelson MANDELA visited the European Parliament in June 1990, just months after being released from prison, to receive the 1988 Sakharov Prize. Like a number of other recipients over the years, he was unable to attend the award ceremony in 1988 as he was imprisoned by the apartheid regime.

Klaus HANSCH EP President, Nelson MANDELA

Reproduction - Official visit of EP President to the Republic of South Africa - Meeting with President Nelson MANDELA

South African leader and Sakharov Prize laureate Nelson MANDELA attends an EU-ACP meeting in Brussels

17th session of the EEC-ACP Joint Assembly

Maria Luisa CASSANMAGNAGO CERRETTI, Nelson MANDELA, Nicole PERY

Speech by Sakharov Prize Winner Nelson MANDELA at the EP in Strasbourg.

Enrique BARON CRESPO, Nelson MANDELA, Winnie MANDELA

Nelson MANDELA visits the European Parliament in June 1990 to receive the 1988 Sakharov Prize, just 4 months after his release from 27 years of imprisonment.

Shortly after his release, Nelson Mandela, Leader of the African National Congress (ANC) speaks to the European Parliament of the need for a just and lasting solution for South Africa where all the people, "both Black and White, emerge as victors." He also receives the European Parliament's Sakharov prize for freedom of thought 1988.

Nelson Mandela at the EP - 13/06/1990

Over the past 40 years the European Parliament has had the honour of welcoming several Nobel Peace Prize laureates such as: Willy BRANDT, Mohamed Anwar Al-SADAT, Lech WALESA, Desmond TUTU, Mikhail GORBACHEV, Nelson MANDELA, Yasser ARAFAT, Yitzhak RABIN, John HUME, Kofie ANNAN, Shirin EBADI, Malala YOUSAFZAI, Denis MUKWEGE and Nadia MURAD

EP rewind: Nobel Peace Prize laureates at the EP

Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered statesmen. He led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa by a multi-racial democracy. Sentenced to life in prison, he spent 27 years in jail before becoming the country's first black President. He played a leading role in the drive for peace.He is laureate of the 1988 Sakharov Prize and of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize®.This video illustrates the relations between Nelson Mandela and the European institutions.

Nelson Mandela and the European institutions

This memoclip presents all the Sakharov Prize laureates from 1988 to 2016

Memoclip: Sakharov Prize laureates - 1988-2016

This Memoclip shows the visit of Winnie MANDELA in June 1990 to the European Parliament on the occasion of the address of her husband Nelson MANDELA, leader of the ANC to the MEPs few months after his release.

Memoclip: Winnie MANDELA at the European Parliament

Nelson MANDELA, leader of the African National Congress and laureate of the 1988 Sakharov Prize, adresses the members of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, during the plenary session of June 1990. Afterwards, he gives a press conference in the presence of Winnie Mandela, his wife.

Address by Nelson MANDELA, Leader of the African National Congress to the European Parliament, and press conference: extracts

Nelson MANDELA, leader of the African National Congress and laureate of the 1988 Sakharov Prize, adresses the members of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, during the plenary session of June 1990.

Address by Nelson MANDELA, Leader of the African National Congress, to the European Parliament

Anatoli Marchenko (posthumously, represented by his widow,Larisa BOGORAZ) - 1988, Russia: His widow, Larissa Bogoraz, herself an activist and a Sakharov Prize nominee, received the prize on his behalf, which was awarded to him posthumously in 1988, the year the European Parliament created the Sakharov Prize. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (in absentia, represented by his grand son, Mandla MANDELA) - 1988, South Africa: He was the first, along with Soviet dissident Anatoly Marchenko, to be awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize in 1988. At the time he was still being kept under house arrest by South Africa's apartheid regime, which imprisoned him for 27 years for his fight against racism.

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