The Belarusian Association of Journalists, the Chechen activist Natalia Estemirova, the Russian Sergui Covalet, and the ex-presidential candidate of Colombia Ingrid Betancourt have been selected as finalists for the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights for the year 2004. Since 1988 the Sakharov Prize, named for a Soviet dissident, has been awarded by the European Parliament to people or organizations from anywhere in the world for their defense of human rights.

 Translation : C. Hancock