{"id":33938,"date":"2017-11-03T11:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=33938"},"modified":"2017-11-03T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:10:26","slug":"sakharov-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/sakharov-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakharov Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who will be awarded the Sakharov Award of the Year 2017?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) ISRO<br \/>\n(b) Democratic opposition in Venezuela<br \/>\n(c) Raif Badawi<br \/>\n(d) Mustafa Yazimi<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (b)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On October 26, 2017, the European Parliament announced the recipient of Sakharov Award, 2017, for the independence of ideas.<\/li>\n<li>For the year 2017 this award will be conferred to the Democratic opposition in Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li>The prize money of 50 thousand euro will be provided at the award distribution ceremony to be held on December 13, 2017 in Strasbourg, France.<\/li>\n<li>The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, named in honour of the Soviet physicist and political dissident Andrei Sakharov, is awarded each year by the European Parliament.<\/li>\n<li>It was set up in 1988 to honour individuals and organizations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/headlines\/eu-affairs\/20171023STO86606\/parliament-awards-sakharov-prize-2017-to-democratic-opposition-in-venezuela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/headlines\/eu-affairs\/20171023STO86606\/parliament-awards-sakharov-prize-2017-to-democratic-opposition-in-venezuela<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/sakharov-prize-eu-venezuela-opposition-political-prisoners-students-a8020746.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/sakharov-prize-eu-venezuela-opposition-political-prisoners-students-a8020746.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who will be awarded the Sakharov Award of the Year 2017? (a) ISRO (b) Democratic opposition in Venezuela (c) Raif Badawi (d) Mustafa Yazimi Answer: (b) Related Facts: On October 26, 2017, the European Parliament announced the recipient of Sakharov Award, 2017, for the independence of ideas. For the year 2017 this award will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-33938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah","tag-awards-honors-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}