US EditionVenezuelan opposition leaders win the EU’s top human rights prize
- The EU parliament awarded the Sakharov prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia for their fight for democracy.
- European Parliament chief Roberta Metsola stated they symbolize the struggle of all Venezuelans for freedom and democracy.
- Machado's group claims evidence showing Gonzalez won the July 28 presidential election despite Maduro's opposing claims.
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On Tuesday (from 12 noon) in Strasbourg, the European Parliament will award this year's Sakharov Prize for Human Rights to the two best-known faces of the opposition in Venezuela. The honorees will be opposition leader María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia. The prize is endowed with 50,000 euros. González ran against head of state Nicolás Maduro in the Venezuelan presidential election in July after Machado was …
At the initiative of the largest party in the European Parliament.
Opposition leaders won the European Parliament award “for their courageous fight to restore freedom and democracy in Venezuela”.
The leaders of the political groups in the European Parliament awarded the prestigious prize to María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia. This recognition hardly hides the total diplomatic stalemate in the face of Nicolás Maduro.
The European Union praises Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia for their "struggle for a fair, free and peaceful transfer of power" in Venezuela.
The European Parliament awarded the highest honor for human rights, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez for "representing the Venezuelan people fighting for the restoration of freedom and democracy."
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