香港民主運動和兩個蘇丹團體，在9月16日（香港時間9月17日上午）自由之家的年度頒獎盛典上，榮獲2020年自由獎。
羅冠聰，著名維權人士及香港立法會前議員，闡述了香港的民主運動。白俄羅斯新任總統候選人 Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya發表特別講話；美國眾議院議長南茜·佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）；佛羅里達州的美國參議員Marco Rubio 均在大會上發言。
來自蘇丹的2個團體是蘇丹專業人士協會和十二月革命烈士家庭組織。
自由之家總裁米高·阿布拉莫維茨說：「自由之家的所有人都為今年的受獎者在代表自由與民主的工作中所表現出的勇氣和奉獻精神所感動。今天大會確認這些在香港和蘇丹、以及在伊朗、白俄羅斯和美國的各種抗爭最終是同一全球努力的一部分。」
自1943年，每年的自由獎都表彰了捍衛自由與民主的傑出領導人，其中包括第十四世達賴喇嘛尊者，溫斯頓·丘吉爾，瓦茨拉夫·哈維爾，馬丁·路德·金博士和中國維權人士陳光誠。
78多年來，自由之家一直致力於捍衛基本自由，並在全球促進民主。
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and 2 Sudanese groups won the 2020 Freedom Award at Freedom House’s annual awards event on September 16 (Hong Kong time on Sept 17 morning).
Nathan Law, prominent activist and former legislator spoke about the movement for democracy in Hong Kong. Special remarks were delivered by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, recent Belarusian presidential candidate; Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives; and Marco Rubio, US senator from Florida.
The 2 groups from Sudan are the Sudanese Professionals Association and the Organization of the December Revolution Martyrs’ Families.
“All of us here at Freedom House are deeply moved by the courage and dedication of this year’s honorees in their work on behalf of freedom and democracy,” said Michael J Abramowitz, president of the Freedom House. “Tonight’s event is an opportunity to recognize that these diverse struggles—in Hong Kong and Sudan, as well as in Iran, Belarus, and the United States—are ultimately part of the same global effort.”
Since 1943, the annual Freedom Awards have recognized outstanding leaders who have championed freedom and democracy, including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Winston Churchill, Vaclav Havel, Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr, and Chen Guancheng (Human Rights Activist from China).
For more than 78 years, Freedom House has worked to defend fundamental freedoms and promote democracy around the world.
