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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Russian rights trio win top EU assembly prize AFP - Friday, October 23 Send IM Story Print Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva gives a press conference in Moscow. Three Russian rights defenders landed the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize on Thursday -- but one cited mixed feelings, saying all a murdered fellow-activist got was "a bullet." STRASBOURG (AFP) - – Three Russian rights defenders landed the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize on Thursday -- but one cited mixed feelings, saying all a murdered fellow-activist got was "a bullet." The 2009 award of the prestigious prize went to Oleg Orlov, Lyudmila Alexeyeva and Sergei Kovalev and "all the other human rights defenders in Russia." The award was given in the name of Natalya Estemirova, an activist for the rights group Memorial, who was shot dead in July after being kidnapped in Chechnya. "Those people who defend human rights must be free to express themselves," said European Parliament head Jerzy Buzek, 20 years after the death of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and founder of Memorial in 1989. Buzek added that European Union lawmakers "think that we can contribute towards the elimination of fear of violence and other forms of persecution endured by rights activists." Estemirova 50, a vocal critic of human rights abuses in the Russian southern Caucasus republic of Chechnya, was found shot dead in neighbouring Ingushetia hours after being kidnapped. "We receive a prize today but Natasha got a bullet," said Memorial president Orlov in a statement. He expressed mixed feelings because Estemirova and Kovalev were nominated in 2004 but failed to win on that occasion, but said he was personally "flattered." The prize "has been awarded to the Russian rights movement," he underlined. "I am thankful for that." Alexeyeva, who heads another collective, the Moscow Helsinki group, said they were "companions-at-arms" with Memorial and praised the European Parliament for espousing "universal human values which I hold dear." The third winner, Kovalev, who was sent to Soviet prison camps in 1974 and then later into exile, was a founding member of Amnesty International''s Moscow chapter. Nicola Duckworth of Amnesty said Estemirova's murder had "brought worldwide attention to the risks human rights defenders face in Russia, especially in the North Caucasus." Estemirova was a close associate of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, assassinated in 2006 in Moscow. After her killing, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Estemirova for exposing uncomfortable truths -- in the face of international pressure seeking those responsible. But a Russian court earlier this month ordered Memorial to retract its accusation that Chechnya's controversial leader Ramzan Kadyrov was responsible for the murder of Estemirova. The Moscow court ordered Orlov -- who had stated that he was sure Kadyrov was guilty -- and Memorial to pay a total of 70,000 rubles (some 1,500 euros or 2,300 dollars) in compensation for damaging the Chechnyan leader's honour and reputation. Memorial has made two bloodthirsty wars in Chechnya and violent unrest across the Caucasus its specialty. It also investigates crimes committed by ex-dictator Joseph Stalin in the name of the former Soviet Union. In December 2008, its premises were turned over by police who seized documents assembled over 20 years relating to Stalinist purges. A judicial battle was needed before they were returned. The Sakharov Prize, in its 21st year, comes with a cash award of 50,000 euros and will be handed over at a ceremony on December 16. Chinese dissident Hu Jia, a campaigner for civil rights, environmental protection and AIDS advocacy, won the prize last year. Previous winners include Nelson Mandela, Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi and former United Nations chief Kofi Annan -- each also former Nobel Peace Prize winners. The other shortlisted candidates were Eritrean-Swedish author and political prisoner Dawit Isaak, and Palestinian women's activist Izzeldin Abuelaish. 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