MEPs have approved their final shortlist for the EU’s human rights award, the Sakharov Prize.<br /><br /> They include Turkish reporter Can Dündar, Nadia Murad Basee, who survived ISIS atrocities in Iraq, and Mustafa Dzemilev, a Crimean Tartar leader.<br /><br /> Lamiya Aji Bashar, another Yazidi survivor of enslavement by ISIS, is also nominated.<br /><br /> Barbara Lochbihler, a German Green MEP, said “it is now very important to talk about freedom of expression, freedom of the press in Turkey.”<br /><br /> “(Dündar) was an ideal candidate because he was very courageous and also needed support.”<br /><br /> On the nomination of Basee and Bashar, Lochbihler said that “we are hoping to draw more attention to the more than 3,000 women who are in captivity.”<br /><br /> Nadia Murad Basee was named as a UN Goodwill Ambassador last month.<br /><br /> The winner of the Sakharov Prize, named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, will be picked at the end of October.<br />
