Oleg SENTSOV, Sakharov Prize laureate 2018, addresses the plenary and receives his Prize in a formal sitting in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

2018 Sakharov Prize: extracts from the address by Oleg SENTSOV, Sakharov Prize laureate 2018 and from the award ceremony

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Arrival of David SASSOLI, EP President and Oleg SENTSOV, Sakharov Prize laureate 2018

SOUNDBITE (Italian), David SASSOLI, EP President, Mr. Sentsov, I really admire your courage, your perseverance, your determination. It is a great honour for me to award you this prize, on behalf of the European Parliament.

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg SENTSOV, Sakharov Prize laureate 2018, Andrej Sakharov, Nelson Mandela, V&aacute;clav Havel. I would have never imaged that one day my name would be mentioned together with theirs. It is a huge honour and also huge responsibility, Thank you for this. I accept and take this prize not as a personal honour, but as a prize to all Ukrainian political prisoners, that have been in Russian prisons and prisoners of war. All the Ukrainian political prisoners are still there, or as prisoners, or in Donbass in the hands of the separatists, or as activists who continue fighting for our country.

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg SENTSOV, Sakharov Prize laureate 2018, Russia and Putin will absolutely definitively cheat you. They do not wish for peace in Donbass or Ukraine, they want to see Ukraine on its knees. They do not want to apply European lawful policies, they would like to rule with their own forceful methods. We will not allow this, we will continue to fight for our freedom and we will fight until the end.

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg SENTSOV, Sakharov Prize laureate 2018 , Please remember thousands of those who have fallen in Ukraine, please remember hundreds of our young men who are still languishing behind bars, that might be subject to torture right now, as I speak. Please remember those Russian Tatars who could be arrested right now at this moment. Their houses might to be searched, families, children may lose fathers, brothers. Please remember those young men who are right now, at this moment in the military fatigues. This kind of sign on their sleeves are in the trenches risking their lives for our freedom and also for your freedom, please do not forget them. Thank you. Long live to Ukraine!

MEPs applauding and giving ovation to the laureate in the Hemicycle (7 shots).

David SASSOLI, EP President handing over the mark of the Sakharov Prize 2018 to Oleg SENTSOV, handshake (5 shots).

Date de l'événement	26/11/2019
Référence:	I180735V
Format:	16:9 format
Copyright:	© European Union
copyrightYear:	2019

2018 Sakharov Prize: extracts from the address by Oleg SENTSOV, Sakharov Prize laureate 2018 and from the award ceremony

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