People walk past the place where in 1996 former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in Stockholm 12 September 2003. Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was attacked by an unknown assailant 10 September 2003 in a shopping center near the same area. Lindt died of her wounds 11 September 2003.
People walk 12 September 2003 near the place where in 1996 former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in Stockholm. In the same area in the center of the town Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh was killed while shopping 10 September 2003.
Lisbet Palme (L) hands out the Olof Palme prizes to Tunisian lawyer Radhia Nasraoui (C) and Saudi lawyer and human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair (prize was received by his wife Samar Badawi) at the second chamber of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Sweden, January 25, 2013.
Lisbet Palme, left, presents the Olof Palme Prize to Tunisian lawyer Radhia Nasraoui, centre, and Saudian lawyer and Samar Badawi, right, receiving the award on behalf of her husband human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair, at the 2nd chamber of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday Jan. 25, 2013. Olaf Palme was two time Prime Minister of Sweden and was assassinated in 1986, and the eponymous Prize is given annually for outstanding achievement and courage in the spirit of Olof Palme.
The Olof Palme Award 2011winner, Mexican feminist, human rights activist, journalist and author, Lydia Cacho, delivers a speech during a ceremony at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm on January 27, 2012.
French President François Mitterrand (C) invited for lunch socialist government heads on May 19, 1983 at Elysee Palace, who met for two days in Paris. From L to R: President of the Senegalese National Assembly Habib Thiam, French First minister Pierre Mauroy, Greek First socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, French President François Mitterrand, Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme, Finnish Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa, French First secretary of Socialist party Lionel Jospin, Portuguese Prime Minister Mario Soares and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez.
