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The daughter of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in prison, received the Sakharov Prize – the European Union’s highest recognition of human rights – on his behalf during a ceremony in Strasbourg.
Daria Navalny received the award in the European Parliament on December 15, months after her father, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal opponents, ended up in prison following a case deemed politically motivated.
The daughter of the Russian oppositionist called the award “gratitude for her father’s activities and the work his associates are doing now.”
European lawmakers on October 20 selected Navalny as this year’s winner for freedom of expression, saying he “led the campaign against corruption and the Putin regime with dignity.”
The Russian opposition dedicated the award to “all the fighters of corruption everywhere in the world.”
The 45-year-old was arrested on January 17 after returning to Moscow after recovering in Berlin from poisoning that some laboratories in the West found to be coming from a military-level nerve agent.
Navalny claimed that the poisoning was directly ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which the Kremlin denies.
The European Union then imposed sanctions on Russian officials for poisoning and imprisoning him.
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