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| Salem Bouazizi, left, said his deceased brother's prize would be dedicated to all Tunisian people |
Five Arab Spring activists, among them a Tunisian fruit seller who set himself to fire sparking revolutions that toppled tyrants, have won Europe's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.
Mohamed Bouazizi, the fruit vendor who died from his burns, won the prize along with Egyptian blogger Asmaa Mahfouz, former Libyan prisoner Ahmed al-Zubair Ahmed al-Sanusi and two Syrians - lawyer Razan Zeitouneh and cartoonist Ali Farzat.
They were recognised by the European parliament for struggling for change in their countries at a ceremony in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday.
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