Journalists from Belarus, Guatemala, Mozambique, Myanmar to be celebrated
CPJ will honor journalists from Belarus, Guatemala, Mozambique, and Myanmar at the 2021 International Press Freedom Awards. The awards will be presented on November 18, 2021, at CPJ’s annual benefit gala, to be chaired by Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, and hosted by ABC “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir. (Photo credits, clockwise from top left: BelaPan/Tatyana Korovenkova; Anastasia Mejía; Democratic Voice of Burma; Canal de Moçambique)
People face off with Kentucky State Troopers during a protest against the deaths of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police and George Floyd by Minneapolis police, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston – RC2PYG9106R3
A woman takes part in a protest outside the CNB Radio headquarters in Caracas August 1, 2009. The first of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the air on Saturday, part of President Hugo Chavez’s drive to extend his socialist revolution to the media. The banner reads, “Where is your freedom of information?” REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA POLITICS CONFLICT MEDIA) – GM1E582029G01
Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey On October 2, 2018, shortly after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, the former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan and a columnist for The Washington Post was killed.
Khashoggi had written critically about Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The CIA found that bin Salman ordered the journalist’s murder.
