Registration opens for international conference in honour of laureate of 2025 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize
August 27, 2025
The Václav Havel Library is set to hold an international conference, subtitled Artists in Oppression, in honour of the laureate at the Technology Center of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague on Wednesday 1 October. In addition to the laureate and finalists of the 2025 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize or their representatives, the guests of honour will include Belarusian writer and journalist Sasha Filipenko; Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko; artist and journalist Samantha Jirón from Nicaragua; Azerbaijani rapper and activist Jamal Ali; and Natalia Matskevich, who will introduce One of Us, a documentary about Sergey Tihanovski. All of these individuals live in exile as they have faced persecution and been jailed by the political regimes in their countries.
Further programme details are available HERE
To attend the conference, registration, free of charge, is required HERE
On Monday 26 August an international jury selected Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, Ukrainian journalist and human rights defender Maksym Butkevych and Azerbaijani journalist Ulvi Hasanli as this year’s finalists. The announcement of the laureate of the prize for 2025 and its presentation will take place during the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on 29 September 2025.
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