Aung San Suu Kyi in 2012 in Rangoon, Burma.
Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi (Time 100, ’13) was under house arrest in 1990 when she was selected to receive the European Union’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Her fight for democracy and consequent confinement for more than a decade made her one of the world’s most well known political prisoners. Twenty-three years after winning the human rights prize, and three years after winning her freedom, she was finally able to collect it at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
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