On 10 December 2025, the worldwide Human Rights Day, France and Germany are recognizing 14 laureates of the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.
Since 2016, to mark Human Rights Day, France and Germany have honoured figures who marketing campaign for human rights with distinctive braveness and dedication. The Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law acknowledges the important contribution made by civil society worldwide to respect for human dignity and the safety of freedom and justice.
Through their dedication, these prizewinners give a voice to these whose rights are sometimes ignored. Many of them threat their freedom, usually their lives, amid the rise in authoritarian tendencies on this planet, which problem human rights and democratic constructions. Several laureates have been and stay uncovered to state and transnational repression.
This 12 months’s prizewinners embody:
- Ms Sumaya Islam (Bangladesh)
- Ms Kristina Ljevak Bajramović (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Ms Andréia Coutinho (Brazil)
- Ms Nelly Godelive Mbang Mbangu (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Ms Lela Tsiskarishvili (Georgia)
- Mr Ismael Moreno Coto (Honduras)
- Ms Dwi Rubiyanti Kholifah (Indonesia)
- Ms Yanar Mohammed (Iraq)
- Ms Fathiya Ali Abdo Maamari (Yemen)
- Mr Pirbhu Satyani (Pakistan)
- Ms Laura Miti (Zambia)
- Mme Maja Stojanović (Serbia)
- Caesar (Mr Farid al-Madhan) (Syria)
On 10 December 2025, M. Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and Mr Gunther Krichbaum, Minister of State for Europe of the Federal Republic of Germany, introduced the prize to Mr Farid al-Madhan, recognized beneath the pseudonym Caesar, who, within the “Caesar report” of 2014, documented acts of torture, arbitrary executions and inhuman remedy inflicted on hundreds of detainees in Syrian prisons, by means of greater than 55,000 images.
