Jailed Chechen activist Oyub Titiev won the Council of Europe's Vaclav Havel prize Monday for defending human rights in the troubled Russian Caucasus republic.
Titiev heads the Grozny office of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Chechnya.
He has been in detention since January on drugs charges.
The 60,000-euro ($67,000) prize "is a recognition of the work he and Memorial are doing," said Liliane Maury Pasquier, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in a statement.
"It is also a message to all those who work in this region to affirm the principles of the rule of law and human rights."
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