CPJ International Press Freedom Awards

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.

Every November, awards are usually given to four individuals, who are feted at a banquet in New York City. One of the aims of the awards is to focus local and international media coverage on countries where press freedom violations are particularly serious.

List of Award Recipients

2007 :-Mazhar Abbas (Pakistan):-Dmitry Muratov (Russia):-Adela Navarro Bello (Mexico):-Gao Qinrong (China)2006 :- Jesús Abad Colorado (Colombia):- Jamal Amer (Yemen):- Madi Ceesay (Gambia):- Atwar Bahjat (Iraq) (posthumous) 2005 :- Galima Bukharbaeva (Uzbekistan) :- Beatrice Mtetwa (Zimbabwe):- Lúcio Flávio Pinto (Brazil):- Shi Tao (China)2004 :- Svetlana Kalinkina (Belarus):- Aung Pwint and Thaung Tun (Nyein Thit) (Burma):- Alexis Sinduhije (Burundi):- Paul Klebnikov (United States) (posthumous)2003:- Abdul Samay Hamed (Afghanistan):- Aboubakr Jamai (Morocco):- Musa Muradov (Russia):- Manuel Vázquez Portal (Cuba)2002 :- Ignacio Gómez (Colombia):- Tipu Sultan (Bangladesh):- Irina Petrushova (Kazakhstan) :- Fesshaye Yohannes (Eritrea)2001:- Jiang Weiping (China):- Geoffrey Nyarota (Zimbabwe):- Horacio Verbitsky (Argentina):- Mazen Dana (Palestine)2000:- Zeljko Kopanja (Bosnia-Herzegovina):- Modeste Mutinga (Democratic Republic of Congo):- Steven Gan (Malaysia):- Mashallah Shamsolvaezin (Iran) 1999 :- Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández (Cuba) :- Baton Haxhiu (Kosovo) :- Jugnu Mohsin and Najam Sethi (Pakistan):- María Cristina Caballero (Colombia)1998:- Grémah Boucar (Niger):- Gustavo Gorriti (Peru) :- Goenawan Mohamad (Indonesia):- Pavel Sheremet (Belarus):- Ruth Simon (Eritrea) 1997 :- Christina Anyanwu (Nigeria):- Ying Chan and Shieh Chung-liang (Hong Kong):- Freedom Neruda (Côte d'Ivoire) :- Viktor Ivancic (Croatia) :- Yalena Masyuk (Russia)1996 :- Yusuf Jameel (India) :- Jesús Blancornelas (Mexico) :- Daoud Kuttab (Palestinian National Authority):- Oscak Isik Yurtçu, Özgür Gündem (Turkey) 1995 :- Yevgeny Kiselyov (Russia) :- José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, "Siglo Veintiuno" (Guatemala) :- Fred M’membe (Zambia) :- Ahmad Taufik (Indonesia):- Veronica Guerin (Ireland) 1994 :- Iqbal Athas (Sri Lanka) :- Aziz Nesin (Turkey) :- Yndamiro Restano (Cuba) :- Daisy Li Yuet-Wah (Hong Kong):- Navidi Vakhsh (Tajikistan) (Posthumous)1993 :- Omar Belhouchet (Algeria) :- Doan Viet Hoat (Vietnam) :- Nosa Igiebor (Nigeria) :- Veran Matic (Serbia):- Ricardo Uceda (Peru) 1992 :- David Kaplan (United States):- Muhammad Al-Saqr (Kuwait) :- Sony Esteus (Haiti) :- Gwendolyn Lister (Namibia) :- Thepchai Yong (Thailand) 1991 :- Pius Njawe (Cameroon) :- Wang Juntao [http://www.democraticchina.net/juntaowang.html] and Chen Ziming (China):- Bill Foley and Cary Vaughan (United States) :- Tatyana Mitkova (former Soviet Union) :- Byron Barrera (Guatemala)

External links

* [http://www.cpj.org/awards06/post_awards_release_06.html/ CPJ website]