Skupina Európskych konzervatívcov a reformistov (EKR) skutočne nominovala Malalu Yousafzai na Sacharovovu cenu 2013, výrok teda hodnotíme ako pravdivý.
Portál Európskeho parlamentu,16. september 2013:
"Malala Yousafzai - nominated jointly by 3 political groups:
• for the EPP group, by José Ignacio Salafranca (ES), Elmar Brok (AT), Michael Gahler (DE), Arnaud Danjean (FR), Joseph Daul (FR), Gay Mitchell (IE) and Mairead Mc Guinness (IE),
• for the S&D group, by Hannes Swoboda (DE) and Véronique de Keyser (BE),
• for the ALDE Group, by Guy Verhofstadt (BE), Sir Graham Watson (UK), and Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck (BE), and also by Jean Lambert (Greens, UK) and the ECR group. "