The Havel Prize is known as after the late Czech president, poet, playwright, dissident, statesman, and former HRF chairman, Václav Havel. Havel led the nonviolent revolution that freed Czechoslovakia from Communist rule, creatively difficult arbitrary energy and injustice in his nation.
HRF launched the Havel Prize in 2012 with the help of Dagmar Havlová, Havel’s widow. Laureates obtain a bronze sculpture depicting the “Goddess of Democracy,” the long-lasting determine erected by Chinese language college students in the course of the Tiananmen Sq. protests in June 1989.
Earlier laureates embrace Iranian artist challenge PaykanArtCar, the late Rwandan gospel musician and activist Kizito Mihigo, Saudi ladies’s rights activist Manal al-Sharif, Chinese language artist Ai Weiwei, South Sudanese activist and musician Emmanuel Jal, the Belarus Free Theatre, Cuban civil society group the Women in White, and Thai band Rap Towards Dictatorship.
