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IPI Hero Award ‘signal of hope to other imprisoned journalists in Africa’

“Prisoners struggle with the feeling of being forgotten and being alone,” Mesfin Negash, program director at the Stockholm-based NGO Civil Rights Defenders, said in accepting the IPI World Press Freedom Hero Award on behalf of imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega. “This is a way to let [Eskinder] know that we value his work”. […]

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#IPIWoCo awards ceremony

Watch the presentation of the IPI World Press Freedom Hero Award and the Free Media Pioneer Award, both given in partnership with Copenhagen-based International Media Support (IMS), on May 18, 2017 at the IPI World Congress in Hamburg. Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega, who has been imprisoned since 2011 after criticising his country’s abuse of anti-terror […]

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#IPIWoCo honours Ethiopian, Afghan journalists

“Eskinder Nega’s courage made him a familiar name, a symbol of resistance for many Ethiopians,” exiled Ethiopian journalist and human rights activist Mesfin Negash told attendees of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2017 World Congress in Hamburg on Thursday as he accepted IPI’s 2017 World Press Freedom Hero award on behalf of Nega, who remains […]

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