FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARDS
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2019
ARTS
Zehra Dogan | Turkey
CAMPAIGNING
Cartoonists Rights Network International
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
Fundación Karisma | Colombia
JOURNALISM
Mimi Mefo | Cameroon
2018
ARTS
The Museum of Dissidence
CAMPAIGNING
Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
Habari RDC
JOURNALISM
Wendy Funes
2017
ARTS
Rebel Pepper
CAMPAIGNING
Ildar Dadin
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
Turkey Blocks
JOURNALISM
Maldives Independent
2016
ARTS
Murad Subay
CAMPAIGNING
Bolo Bhi
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
GreatFire
JOURNALISM
Zaina Erhaim
MUSIC IN EXILE
Serge Martin Bambara aka Smockey
2015
ARTS
Mouad "El Haqed" Belghouat
CAMPAIGNING
Amran Abdundi
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
Tamás Bodoky
JOURNALISM
Rafael Marques de Morais
JOURNALISM
Safa Al Ahmad
2014
ARTS
Mayam Mahmoud
ADVOCACY
Shahzad Ahmed
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
Shubhranshu Choudhary
JOURNALISM
Azadliq
2013
ARTS
Zanele Muholi
ADVOCACY
Malala Yousafzai
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
Bassel Khartabil
JOURNALISM
Kostas Vaxevanis
2012
ARTS
Ali Ferzat
ADVOCACY
Nabeel Rajab, Bahrain Center for Human Rights
INNOVATION
Freedom Fone
JOURNALISM
Idrak Abbasov
40TH ANNIVERSARY AWARD
Memorial Archive of St Petersburg
2011
ARTS
MF Husain
NEW MEDIA
Tunileaks
CAMPAIGNING
Gao Zhisheng
JOURNALISM
Ibrahim Eissa
SPECIAL COMMENDATION
Belarus’s prisoners of conscience
2010
MUSIC
Mahsa Vahdat and Ferhat Tunç
PUBLISHING
Andalus Press
CAMPAIGNING
Rashid Hajili
JOURNALISM
Radio La Voz
SPECIAL COMMENDATION
Heather Brooke
2009
FILM
The Devil Came on Horseback
NEW MEDIA
Psiphon
CAMPAIGNING
Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
JOURNALISM
The Sunday Leader
BOOK
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
2008
FILM
Ahlaam and Mohamed Al-Daradji
NEW MEDIA
Wikileaks
CAMPAIGNING
U Gambira
JOURNALISM
Arat Dink and Agos Magazine
BOOK
The Art of Political Murder: Who killed Bishop Gerardi? By Francisco Goldman
2007
FILM
5 Days and Yoav Shamir
WHISTLEBLOWER
Chen Guangcheng
CAMPAIGNING
Siphiwe Hlophe
JOURNALISM
Kareem Amer
BOOK
Being Arab by Samir Kassir
2006
FILM
Turtles Can Fly, director Bahman Ghobadi
WHISTLEBLOWER
Huang Jingao
CAMPAIGNING
Beatrice Mtetwa
JOURNALISM
Sihem Bensedrine
BOOK
Into The Quick of Life: The Rwandan Genocide: The Survivors Speak and A Time for Machetes: The Rwandan Genocide: The Killers Speak by Jean Hatzfeld.
2005
FILM
Final Solution, director Rakesh Sharma
WHISTLEBLOWER
Grigoris Lazos
LAW
Centre for Constitutional Rights
JOURNALISM
Sumi Khan
BOOK
Soldiers of Light by Daniel Bergner
2004
FILM
Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony, Director Lee Hirsch
WHISTLEBLOWER
Satyendra Kumar Dubey
BOOK
Slave by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis
JOURNALISM
Kaveh Golestan
MUSIC
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
SPECIAL
Mordechai Vanunu
CENSOR OF THE YEAR
John Ashcroft
2003
FREE EXPRESSION
Hashem Aghajari
WHISTLEBLOWER
Tony Kevin
SERVICES TO CENSORSHIP
Jonathan Moyo
CIRCUMVENTION OF CENSORSHIP
Al-Jazeera
JOURNALISM
Fergal Keane
2002
FREE EXPRESSION
Anna Politkovskaya
WHISTLEBLOWER
Jiang Weiping
SERVICES TO CENSORSHIP
Silvio Berlusconi
CIRCUMVENTION OF CENSORSHIP
Şanar Yurdatapan
2001
FREE EXPRESSION
Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
WHISTLEBLOWER
Grigory Pasko
SERVICES TO CENSORSHIP
UK Ministry of Defence
CIRCUMVENTION OF CENSORSHIP
Lauri Cranor, Avi Rubin and Marc Waldman
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