A Pen for Freedom
The Golden Pen of Freedom is an annual award made by WAN to recognise the outstanding action, in writing or deed, of an individual, a group or an institution in the cause of press freedom.
Behind the names of the laureates lie stories of extraordinary personal courage and self-sacrifice, stories of jail, of beatings, of bombings, of censorship, of exile and of murder.
One of the objectives of the Golden Pen is turn the spotlight of public attention on repressive governments and journalists who fight them. Often, the laureate is still engaged in the struggle for freedom of expression and the Pen has, on several occasions, secured the release of a publisher or journalist from jail or afforded him or her a degree of protection against further persecution.
| 2008 | Li Changqing
Fuzhou Daily
China | | 2007 | Shi Tao
China | | 2006 | Akbar Ganji
Iran | | 2005 | Mahjoub Mohamed Salih
Al-Ayam
Sudan | | 2004 | Ruslan Sharipov
Uzbekistan | | 2003 | Belarusian Association of Journalists
Belarus | | 2002 | Geoffrey Nyarota
The Daily News
Zimbabwe | | 2001 | Joint Laureates
U Win Tin
San San Nweh
Burma | | 2000 | Nizar Nayouf
Syria | | 1999 | Faraj Sarkohi Adineh
Iran | | 1998 | Doan Viet
Dien Dan Tu Do
Vietnam | | 1997 | Joint Laureates | | | Nasa Borba
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | | | Feral Tribune
Croatia | | | Oslobodjenje
Bosnia-Herzogovina | | 1996 | Yndamiro Restano Diaz
The Independent Press, Bureau of Cuba (BPIC)
Cuba | | 1995 | Gao Yu
Freelance journalist
China | | 1994 | Omar Belhouchet
El Watan
Algeria | | 1993 | Pius Njawe
Le Messager
Cameroon | | 1992 | Dai Qing
Guangming Daily
China | | 1991 | Gitobu Imanyara
The Nairobi Law Monthly
Kenya | | 1990 | Luis Gabriel Cano
El Espectador
Colombia | | 1989 | Sergei Grigoryants
Glasnost
USSR | | 1988 | Naji al-Ali
Palestinian Cartoonist
Palestine, posthumously | | 1987 | Juan Pablo Cardenas
Analisis
Chile | | 1986 | Anthony Heard
The Cape Times
South Africa | | 1985 | Joaquin Roces
The Manila Times
Philippines | | 1982 | P. Joaquin Chamorro Barrios
La Prensa
Nicaragua | | 1981 | José Javier Uranga
Diario de Navarra
Spain | | 1980 | Jacobo Timerman
La Opinion
Argentina | | 1979 | Claude Bellanger
Le Parisien Libéré
France, posthumously | | 1978 | Donald Woods
The Daily Dispatch
South Africa | | 1978 | Percy Qoboza
The World
South Africa | | 1977 | Robert High Lilley
Belfast Telegraph
Northern Ireland | | 1976 | Raul Régo
Republica A Luta
Portugal | | 1975 | Sang-Man Kim Dong-A Ilbo
South Korea | | 1974 | Julio de Mesquita Neto
O Estado de Sao Paulo
Brazil | | 1973 | Anton Betz
Rheinische Post
Germany | | 1972 | Hubert Beuve-Méry
Le Monde
France | | 1970 | Alberto Gainza Paz
La Prensa
Argentina | | 1969 | The Czechoslovak press fighting for freedom
Czechoslovakia | | 1968 | Christos Lambrakis
To Vima
Greece | | 1967 | Mochtar Lubis
Indonesia Raya
Indonesia | | 1966 | Jules Dubois
The Chicago Tribune
USA | | 1965 | Esmond Wickremesing
The Assoc. Newspapers of Ceylon
Sri Lanka | | 1964 | Gabriel Makoso
Le Courrier d’Afrique
Congo | | 1963 | U. Sein Win
The Guardian
Burma | | 1961 | Ahmet Emin Yalman
Hur Vatan
Turkey |
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