Nominees for Václav Havel Human Rights Prize announced

The candidates for this year’s Václav Havel Human Rights Prize have been announced. The three nominees for the award are the Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva, the organisation Women for Afghan Women and the Balkans-based Youth Initiative for Human Rights. The announcement was made on Tuesday by Anne Brasseur, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which with the Václav Havel Library and the Charter 77 Foundation bestows the prize. This year’s winner, the third, will be announced on September 30.