The CPJ International Press Freedom Awards honour journalists around the world who show courage in defending press freedom in the face of attacks, threats or imprisonment. Created in 1991, the awards are administered by the Committee to Protect Journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent nonprofit organisation based in New York City that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists.-History:A group of U.S...

.

Every November, awards are usually given to four individuals, who are honoured at a banquet in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

. One of the aims of the awards is to focus local and international media

News media

The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...

 coverage on countries where violations of freedom of the press are particularly serious.

Recipients

2010

-Mohammad Davari (Iran)

-Nadira Isayeva

Nadira Isayeva

Nadira Isayeva is a Russian journalist who has been internationally recognized for her reporting on security issues in North Caucasus.Isayeva is editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Chernovik in Dagestan, described by Reporters Without Borders as "Dagestan’s leading independent newspaper"...

 (Russia)

-Dawit Kebede

Dawit Kebede

Dawit Kebede is an Ethiopian print media journalist and winner of the 2010 CPJ International Press Freedom Award.-Early career:...

 (Ethiopia)

-Laureano Márquez

Laureano Márquez

Laureano Márquez , is a leading Spanish-born Venezuelan humorist and politologist.Marquez was born on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, in 1963 and obtained a BA in Political Science from the Central University of Venezuela...

 (Venezuela)

2009

-Mustafa Haji Abdinur

Mustafa Haji Abdinur

Mustafa Haji Abdinur is a Somali journalist and radio correspondent. He was awarded a CPJ International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2009.-Early life and education:...

 (Somalia)

-Naziha Réjiba

Naziha Réjiba

Naziha Réjiba also known as Oum Ziad is a Tunisian journalist. She edits the online journal Kalima.In 2000, Réjiba co-founded Kalima, along with Sihem Bensedrine...

 (Tunisia)

-Eynulla Fatullayev

Eynulla Fatullayev

Eynulla Emin oglu Fatullayev is an Azerbaijani journalist and editor-in-chief of the independent Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and Azeri-language daily Gündəlik Azərbaycan newspapers. He was imprisoned for four years in Azerbaijan for his criticism of government's policies and for his...

 (Azerbaijan)

-J. S. Tissainayagam

J. S. Tissainayagam

Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam is a Sri Lankan journalist...

 (Sri Lanka)

2008

-Bilal Hussein

Bilal Hussein

Bilal Hussein is an Associated Press photojournalist based in Fallujah, Iraq who had been detained by U.S. forces, suspected of aiding insurgents in Iraq. He was handed over to face charges in the Iraqi Central Court, reportedly over the circumstances of his photos supplied by the U.S. military...

 (Iraq)

-Danish Karokhel

Danish Karokhel

Danish Karokhel is director of Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghanistan's leading independent news agency. In 2008, he won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. The award is given for journalists who show courage in defending press freedom in the face of attacks,...

 and Farida Nekzad

Farida Nekzad

Farida Nekzad is co-founder, managing editor and former deputy-director of Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghanistan's leading independent news agency, and former vice president of the South Asia Free Media Association for the South Asia Media Commission....

 (Afghanistan)

-Andrew Mwenda

Andrew Mwenda

Andrew Mwenda is a Ugandan journalist,founder and owner of The Independent, Uganda's premier current affair's news magazine.. He attended Busoga College Mwiri in eastern Uganda before attending Makerere University. He was arrested and released on bail by the Ugandan government for "being in...

 (Uganda)

-Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez

Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez

Héctor Fernando Maseda Gutiérrez is a Cuban nuclear engineer and a journalist.The Fidel Castro regime arrested him during the 2003 "Black Spring" and sentenced him to 20 years in jail. He was released in February, 2011. In 2008, he won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to...

 (Cuba)

2007

-Mazhar Abbas

Mazhar Abbas

Mazhar Abbas is a Pakistani journalist. He is deputy director of ARY News Television, the second 24-hour after geo, bilingual news channel in Pakistan, and the secretary general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists...

 (Pakistan)

-Dmitry Muratov

Dmitry Muratov

Dmitry Muratov is the editor-in-chief of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. The Novaya Gazeta has been called "the only truly critical newspaper with national influence in Russia today" by the Committee to Protect Journalists...

 (Russia)

-Adela Navarro Bello

Adela Navarro Bello

Adela Navarro Bello is a Mexican journalist. She is the general director of the weekly magazine Zeta, which is published in the northern city of Tijuana. Zeta, which was founded in 1980, is one of the few publications that frequently reports on organized crime, drug trafficking, and corruption in...

 (Mexico)

-Gao Qinrong

Gao Qinrong

Gao Qinrong is a Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for eight years after reporting on a fraudulent irrigation project in his home province of Shanxi. He was a winner of the Committee to Protect Journalists' 2007 CPJ International Press Freedom Award....

 (China)

2006

- Jesús Abad Colorado

Jesús Abad Colorado

Jesús Abad Colorado is a Colombian photojournalist. His work focuses on human rights and armed conflict.He was born in 1967 in Medellín, Colombia. He received a BA in Communications from the University of Antioquia. He worked as a photographer for the Medellín newspaper El Colombiano from 1992...

 (Colombia)

- Jamal Amer

Jamal Amer

Jamal Amer is a journalist from Yemen. He is the editor of the weekly journal Al-Wasat, which he founded in 2004. Al-Wasat frequently publishes reports critical of the government from international human rights organizations....

 (Yemen)

- Madi Ceesay

Madi Ceesay

Madi Ceesay is a Gambian journalist. He has served as president of the Gambia Press Union, and has been imprisoned and harassed for his journalistic work. Ceesay's work has provided critical support for freedom of the press in Gambia, where journalists are frequently imprisoned and attacked.From...

 (Gambia)

- Atwar Bahjat

Atwar Bahjat

Atwar Bahjat was an Iraqi journalist and reporter for al-Arabiya television who was abducted and murdered while covering a story. She had previously worked for al-Jazeera...

 (Iraq) (posthumous)

2005

- Galima Bukharbaeva

Galima Bukharbaeva

Galima Bukharbaeva is an Uzbek journalist known for her reporting on state authoritarianism and her eyewitness account of the 2005 Andijan massacre.-Early career:...

 (Uzbekistan)

- Beatrice Mtetwa

Beatrice Mtetwa

Beatrice Mtetwa is a Zimbabwean lawyer who has been internationally recognized for her defense of journalists and press freedom. The New York Times described her in 2008 as "Zimbabwe's top human rights lawyer".-Legal practice:...

 (Zimbabwe)

- Lúcio Flávio Pinto

Lucio Flavio Pinto

Lúcio Flávio de Faria Pinto is an independent journalist who lives in Belém, Brazil. He is the publisher and editor of Jornal Pessoal, which is published bi-weekly....

 (Brazil)

- Shi Tao

Shi Tao

Shi Tao is a mainland Chinese journalist, writer and poet, who in 2005 was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years for releasing a document of the Communist Party to an overseas Chinese democracy site after Yahoo! China provided his personal details to the Chinese government.-Brief history:Shi Tao...

 (China)

2004

- Svetlana Kalinkina (Belarus)

- Aung Pwint

Aung Pwint

Aung Pwint is a Burmese journalist and documentary maker notable for his 1999 imprisonment by the State Peace and Development Council , Burma's military government, on charges of fax-machine ownership and "sending news".-Documentary work:...

 and Thaung Tun (Nyein Thit) (Burma)

- Alexis Sinduhije

Alexis Sinduhije

Alexis Sinduhije is a Burundian journalist. He founded the Radio Publique Africaine as a means of bringing about peace between his fellow Tutsi and the Hutu in his often war-torn country...

 (Burundi)

- Paul Klebnikov

Paul Klebnikov

Paul Klebnikov was a Russian-American journalist and historian of Russian history. He worked for Forbes Magazine for over 10 years and at the time of his death was Chief editor of the Russian edition. His murder in Moscow in 2004 was seen as a blow against investigative journalism in Russia...

 (United States) (posthumous)

2003

- Abdul Samay Hamed (Afghanistan)

- Aboubakr Jamai (Morocco)

- Musa Muradov (Russia)

- Manuel Vázquez Portal

Manuel Vázquez Portal

Manuel Vázquez Portal is an award-winning Cuban poet, writer and journalist.He won three official prizes between 1984 and 1993. In 1995, he was expelled by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba because of his dissident views.He was incarcerated during the "Black Spring" in 2003...

 (Cuba)

2002

- Ignacio Gómez (Colombia)

- Tipu Sultan (Bangladesh)

- Irina Petrushova

Irina Petrushova

Irina Petrushova is a Kazakh journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of the defunct Respublika weekly.Founded in 2000, Respublika focused on covering business and economic issues in Kazakhstan, and frequently published stories highly critical of president Nursultan Nazarbayev's regime...

 (Kazakhstan)

- Fesshaye Yohannes

Fesshaye Yohannes

Fesshaye Yohannes was an Eritrean journalist who founded the weekly journal Setit and was a recipient of the Committee to Protect Journalists' 2002 International Press Freedom Award. Yohannes was imprisoned without charges in September 2001, and died in government custody.Yohannes became a...

 (Eritrea)

2001

- Jiang Weiping

Jiang Weiping

Jiang Weiping is a veteran mainland Chinese journalist known internationally for his arrest by the Communist Party of China in 2001. During his career, he received several awards from local and provincial governments for his journalism and reporting. In 1999, he began publishing a series of...

 (China)

- Geoffrey Nyarota

Geoffrey Nyarota

Geoffrey Nyarota is an award-winning Zimbabwean journalist and author. He is the managing editor of , an online newspaper. His first book, Against the Grain, Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman, was published by Zebra Press of South Africa in 2006....

 (Zimbabwe)

- Horacio Verbitsky

Horacio Verbitsky

Horacio Verbitsky is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author. He writes for the left-leaning Argentine newspaper Página/12 and heads up the Center for Legal and Social Studies , an Argentine human-rights organization.He is also a member of the Directive Board of Human Rights...

 (Argentina)

- Mazen Dana

Mazen Dana

Mazen Dana was a Palestinian journalist who worked as a Reuters cameraman and was shot and killed by United States soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq on August 17, 2003...

 (Palestine)

2000

- Željko Kopanja

Željko Kopanja

Željko Kopanja is a Bosnian Serb newspaper editor and director of Nezavisne Novine, one of Bosnia's main paper published in Banja Luka.Kopanja holds a degree in economics from University of Banja Luka...

 (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

- Modeste Mutinga

Modeste Mutinga

Modeste Mutinga Mutuishayi, commonly known as Modeste Mutinga, is a journalist and senator of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the publisher of Le Potentiel, which The Commmittee to Protect Journalists described as "the only independent daily newspaper in the war-torn Democratic Republic of...

 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

- Steven Gan (Malaysia)

- Mashallah Shamsolvaezin

Mashallah Shamsolvaezin

Mashallah Shamsolvaezin is an Iranian newspaper and magazine publisher who edited many of post-revolutionary Iran's first and most widely-circulated independent newspapers, including Kayhan, Jame'eh, Neshat, and Asr-e Azadegan...

 (Iran)

1999

- Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández (Cuba)

- Baton Haxhiu

Baton Haxhiu

Baton Haxhiu is one of Kosovo's best known journalists. In 1990s he started working as a junior journalist with Koha magazine. He later became editor-in-chief of Koha Ditore daily, established by publisher Veton Surroi. In this capacity, he won the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in...

 (Kosovo)

- Jugnu Mohsin

Jugnu Mohsin

Jugnu Mohsin is a Pakistani publisher and editor of the Lahore-based The Friday Times, Pakistan's first English-language independent newsweekly.-Background:...

 and Najam Sethi

Najam Sethi

Najam Sethi is an award-winning Pakistani journalist and the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a Lahore-based political weekly. He was previously the editor of Daily Times and Daily Aajkal newspapers. He also hosts a popular political program in Urdu, called Aapas ki Baat, on GEO News...

 (Pakistan)

- María Cristina Caballero (Colombia)

1998

- Grémah Boucar (Niger)

- Gustavo Gorriti

Gustavo Gorriti

Gustavo Gorriti is a Peruvian journalist who has worked extensively on coverage pertaining to the politics, culture, and social issues of Central and South America, and the Caribbean...

 (Peru)

- Goenawan Mohamad

Goenawan Mohamad

Goenawan Mohamad is a renowned Indonesian poet and man of letters.Goenawan Mohamad was born in Batang, Central Java. His early writings include Potret Seorang Penyair Muda Sebagai Si Malin Kundang and Seks, Sastra, Kita ,'"Kesusastraan dan Kekuasaan' Goenawan Mohamad (born 29 July 1941) is a...

 (Indonesia)

- Pavel Sheremet (Belarus)

- Ruth Simon

Ruth Simon

Ruth Simon, an Eritrean former correspondent for AFP, was arrested April 1997 and later released in 1999, for her role in reporting incidents involving Eritreans in Sudan. It was reportedly taken as defamation by the president...

 (Eritrea)

1997

- Christina Anyanwu

Christina Anyanwu

Christiana 'Chris' Anyanwu MFR is a Nigerian journalist, publisher, author, and politician, hailed as one of the female pioneers in Nigerian journalism and broadcasting...

 (Nigeria)

- Ying Chan and Shieh Chung-liang (Hong Kong)

- Freedom Neruda (Côte d'Ivoire)

- Viktor Ivančić

Viktor Ivancic

Viktor Ivančić is a Croatian journalist, best known as the founding member and long-time editor-in-chief of satirical weekly Feral Tribune....

 (Croatia)

- Yelena Masyuk

Yelena Masyuk

Yelena Vasiliyevna Masyuk is a Russian television journalist known for her coverage of the First and Second Chechen Wars and her high-profile 1997 abduction.-Journalism:...

 (Russia)

1996

- Yusuf Jameel

Yusuf Jameel

Yusuf Jameel, is journalist of South Asia. Formerly a correspondent for the BBC, he is currently the Special Correspondent with Indian global newspaper The Asian Age and its sister publication Deccan Chronicle based in restive Kashmir besides regularly contributing to the New York Times, Time...

 (India)

- Jesús Blancornelas

Jesús Blancornelas

Jesús Blancornelas was a Mexican journalist.-Biography:Born Juan Jesús Blanco Ornelas in San Luis Potosí, he held his first job as a reporter in that city...

 (Mexico)

- Daoud Kuttab

Daoud kuttab

Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist. He is considered to be a moderate voice among the Palestinians. He is the director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University and founder/general director of "AmmanNet", the Arab world's first internet radio station...

 (Palestinian National Authority)

- Oscak Isik Yurtçu, Özgür Gündem (Turkey)

1995

- Yevgeny Kiselyov

Yevgeny Kiselyov

Yevgeny Alexeyevitsch Kiselyov is a Russian journalist now working in Ukraine. Where he presents the popular Big Politics show.-Biography:...

 (Russia)

- José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, Siglo Veintiuno

Siglo Veintiuno

Siglo Veintiuno is an important Guatemalan newspaper. It was founded in 1990 by José Rubén Zamora.-External links:*http://www.sigloxxi.com/...

(Guatemala)

- Fred M’membe (Zambia)

- Ahmad Taufik

Ahmad Taufik

Ahmad Taufik is an Indonesian newspaper journalist known for his articles critical of the dictatorship of President Suharto.Taufik worked as a reporter at the magazine Tempo until its banning by Information Minister Harmoko of Suharto's New Order government in 1994...

 (Indonesia)

- Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin was an Irish crime reporter who was murdered on 26 June 1996 by drug lords, an event which, alongside the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe three weeks earlier, helped establish the Criminal Assets Bureau....

 (Ireland)

1994

- Iqbal Athas

Iqbal Athas

Iqbal Athas is a Sri Lankan journalist who sometimes contributes to CNN. Athas was the defence columnist for the Sunday Times and he also contributed to Jane's Defence Weekly...

 (Sri Lanka)

- Aziz Nesin

Aziz Nesin

Aziz Nesin was a famous Turkish writer and humorist of Crimean Tatar origin and author of more than 100 books.-Pseudonyms:...

 (Turkey)

- Yndamiro Restano (Cuba)

- Daisy Li Yuet-Wah

Daisy Li Yuet-Wah

Daisy Li Yuet-Wah is a Hong Kong journalist. She works for the independent paper Ming Pao and is a leader of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association.In 1994, she won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists....

 (Hong Kong)

- Navidi Vakhsh (Tajikistan) (Posthumous)

1993

- Omar Belhouchet

Omar Belhouchet

Omar Belhouchet is an Algerian journalist who has been prosecuted by his government on numerous occasions. He publishes the daily newspaper El Watan , which he founded in 1990 after he and nineteen colleagues left the FLN government-owned newspaper El Moudjahid .-Journalism:After receiving a...

 (Algeria)

- Doan Viet Hoat (Vietnam)

- Nosa Igiebor (Nigeria)

- Veran Matić

Veran Matic

Veran Matić , born on 1962 in Sabac, Serbia, is the Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Belgrade’s leading independent Radio and Television station B92 , Serbia’s commercially funded public service broadcaster, managing the company’s radio, TV, online, publishing and cultural services...

 (Serbia)

- Ricardo Uceda

Ricardo Uceda

Ricardo Uceda Perez is a Peruvian journalist notable for his award-winning coverage of military and government corruption.-Background:...

 (Peru)

1992

- David Kaplan

David Kaplan (author)

David E. Kaplan is an investigative reporter and director of the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Prior, he was with the American newsweekly U.S. News & World Report.-Works:...

 (United States)

- Mohammed Al-Sager

Mohammed Al-Sager

Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager is an award-winning journalist, former member of the National Assembly of Kuwait, and former chairman of the Arab Parliament.-Background:...

 (Kuwait)

- Sony Esteus

Sony Esteus

Sony Esteus is a Haitian radio journalist. For seventeen years, he has served as executive director of Sosyete Animasyon Kominikayon Sosyal , an organization supporting Haitian community-based radio...

 (Haiti)

- Gwendolyn Lister (Namibia)

- Thepchai Yong

Thepchai Yong

Thepchai Yong is a Thai newspaper and television journalist known for his reporting on corruption and his criticism of the governments of Suchinda Kraprayoon and Thaksin Shinawatra....

 (Thailand)

1991

- Pius Njawe

Pius Njawe

Pius Njawé was a Cameroonian journalist and director of Le Messager as well as Le Messager Populi. He had been known as one of the strongest advocates for press freedom in Africa beginning with his founding of Le Messager in 1979.-Early career:At the age of 19, he helped reveal the news oil had...

 (Cameroon)

- Wang Juntao

Arrest and trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao

Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao were arrested in late 1989 for their involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Chinese authorities alleged they were the “black hands” behind the movement. Both Chen and Wang rejected the allegations made against them...

 and Chen Ziming

Arrest and trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao

Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao were arrested in late 1989 for their involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Chinese authorities alleged they were the “black hands” behind the movement. Both Chen and Wang rejected the allegations made against them...

 (China)

- Bill Foley

Bill Foley

Bill Foley is a US photojournalist whose work has been recognized by several national and international awards. He is an alumnus of Indiana University and has worked on assignment in 47 countries, with a particular focus on the Middle East....

 and Cary Vaughan

Cary Vaughan

Cary Vaughan is an American English language instructor and journalist best known for her role in the Terry A. Anderson hostage crisis in Lebanon. An instructor at the American University of Beirut and a part-time worker at Associated Press bureau there, Vaughan and her husband Bill Foley, an AP...

 (United States)

- Tatyana Mitkova

Tatyana Mitkova

Tatyana Mitkova is a Russian television journalist for NTV. She became famous in 1991 for refusing to read the official Soviet Union version of the military response to the uprising in Lithuania...

 (former Soviet Union)

- Byron Barrera

Byron Barrera

Byron Barrera Ortiz is a Guatemalan journalist noted for his reporting of human rights abuses by the Guatemalan government during and after the Guatemalan Civil War, for which he received repeated threats against his life. In 1990, his wife, Refugio Araceli Villanueva de Barrera, was murdered in an...

(Guatemala)