Jailed Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny wins EU’s Sakharov Prize

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been awarded the European Union’s highest award for human rights-Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. It European Union’s top human rights prize.

In awarding the Sakharov Prize to Mr. Navalny, the European Parliament praised his “immense personal bravery.”

The 45-year-old activist was poisoned with a nerve agent last year and promptly arrested upon his return to Moscow from treatment in Germany and later imprisoned.