[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” full_height=”yes” css_animation=”fadeIn” css=”.vc_custom_1488381975897{background-image: url(https://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/zaina-erhaim-1460×490.jpg?id=80519) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” el_class=”text_white”][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Zaina Erhaim, 2016 Freedom of Expression Awards Journalism Fellow” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:32|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Her government wanted her dead for training Syrian women and men to report on untold stories as their cities became engulfed in destruction. They reported her passport stolen to lock her in exile.” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:26|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1488381650351{margin-right: -15px !important;margin-left: -15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1488381225666{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-bottom: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award-winning Zaina Erhaim was studying journalism in London when civil war erupted in Syria in 2013. Erhaim felt compelled to report from her homeland and teach her craft to citizen journalists. For her efforts she was targeted by the government and its foes.
But she continues her work to highlight the unreported stories in the battle for Syria’s future.
Index on Censorship is committed to exposing censorship and threats to freedom of expression in countries like Syria.
We are a nonprofit that campaigns for and defends free expression worldwide. We publish work by censored writers and artists, promote debate, and monitor threats to free speech – and we support individuals like Zaina through our annual awards and fellowship programme.
We believe that everyone should be free to express themselves without fear of harm or persecution – no matter what their views.
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Launched in May 2014, the database contains over 2,700 verified threats to media freedom. We monitor incidents in 42 European and neighbouring countries. We lobby governments and the EU to take action to protect journalists and citizens’s rights to information.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1488811147533{background-image: url(https://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/MMF_report_2016_WEB-1-1A.jpg?id=85872) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indexoncensorship.org%2Ffellowship%2F|||”][vc_separator color=”black”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1488975007999{margin-bottom: 100px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Through the Index Awards Fellowship we work with our winners – both during an intensive week in London and the rest of the awarding year – to provide longer term, structured support.
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