DHAKA: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, has finally collected the European Union’s 1990 Sakharov Prize for human rights.

In Tuesday’s stirring ceremony, European Parliament president Martin Schulz said that ‘23 years later, we welcome you here and it is a great moment’, reports The Straits Times.

Suu Kyi has persevered for decades in promoting democracy.

She and her National League for Democracy party were frozen out of politics by the military regime that governed until 2011, and last year she and several dozen party members won parliamentary seats.

BDST: 1925 HRS, OCT 22, 2013
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