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| About the Golden Pen of Freedom |
The Golden Pen of Freedom is an annual award made by WAN-IFRA 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.
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2009
2008 |
Ahmad Zeid-Abadi, Iran
Najam Sethi, Pakistan
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
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Faraj Sarkohi Adineh, Iran |
| 1998 |
Doan Viet Hoat, Dien Dan Tu Do, Vietnam |
| 1997 |
Joint Laureates
Nasa Borba, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Feral Tribune, Croatia
Oslobodjenje, Bosnia-Herzogovina
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| 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
Percy Qoboza
The World South Africa
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| 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
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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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