London – The Center for the Protection of Journalists, a US-based non-governmental organization advocating for freedom of the press, announced the names of the journalists who will receive the International Press Freedom Awards in 2022.
Those elected are Niyaz Abdullah from Iraqi Kurdistan; Abraham Jiménez Enoa from Cuba; Dear Musaieva from Ukraine and Pham Doan Trang from Vietnam. In addition, Russian Galina Timchenko, editor of the independent website Meduza, will also be honored with a special award.
According to the organization, everyone faced tremendous hardship, including widespread disinformation and government pressure to report independently to the public in the midst of war, including beatings and imprisonment.
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One in five winners is in prison (Trang) and three were forced to leave their country due to persecution (Timchenko, Jimenéz Enoa and Abdullah).
And two of the chosen ones are journalists who oppose threats and the censorship that Vladimir Putin’s government imposes on the press.
Galina Timchenko is the editor of the independent website Meduza. Dear Musaieva runs the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.
“The winners set journalism at its best, with work revealing the effects of war, corruption and abuse of power on everyday life,” said CPJ President Jodie Ginsberg.
Meet the winners of the CPJ Press Freedom Award
Abraham Jimenez Enoa, Cuba
Jiménez Enoa is a freelance journalist and co-founder of El Estornudo, an online narrative journalism magazine launched in 2016. He is also a columnist for The Washington Post and Gatopardo magazines.
She has become a relevant voice in the Cuban media community, providing new perspectives on the challenges faced by independent journalists and reporting on issues rarely covered in the state media, including racism.
In 2020, state security officials searched and handcuffed Jiménez, interrogated him for five hours, and threatened his family for articles on life in Cuba in the monthly Washington Post columns.
Despite threats by authorities of legal repercussions if he continued to publish it in The Washington Post, the same week Jiménez Enoa published another column claiming it could be his last article due to the threat of arrest.
Persistent harassment and censorship forced Jiménez to flee to Spain in 2021, where he now lives in exile.
Niyaz Abdullah, Iraqi Kurdistan
A freelance journalist, Abdullah is a regular contributor to media outlets in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, including Radio Nawa, broadcaster NRT and news sites Westga, Zhyan News Network, Hawlati and Skurd.
He covered politics, civil protests, government corruption, human rights, and ethnic and religious minorities in Iraqi Kurdistan. The journalist was legally harassed, even detained, and threatened with violence by the security forces and local authorities for her work.
He fled to France in 2021 to escape threats.
Dear Musayeva, Ukraine
Musaieva is the editor-in-chief of Ukraine’s leading independent online newspaper, Ukrainska Pravda, covering politics, economy and culture, as well as the Russian invasion of the country.
According to CPJ, the journalist worked tirelessly to ensure the safety of his staff and inform the public from the moment of the break-in.
In June 2022, he and a fellow writer faced death threats following the release of an investigative report.
“Ukrainska Pravda’s journalists report critically and convincingly under Musaieva’s leadership, despite the dangers of war and the Russian-proclaimed broadcast ban,” CPJ says.
Pham Doan Trang, Vietnam
Arrested since 2020 and convicted in December last year, Trang is a human rights reporter and the founder of independent law magazine Luat Khoa.
He also edited and wrote for The Vietnamese, an independent English-language website, and reported for the blog Danlambao in exile.
He was arrested on 6 October 2020 under Article 117 of the Criminal Code, a provision that prohibits producing or disseminating news against the State.
In a trial that lasted only one day, he was held in isolation for more than a year before being sentenced in December 2021.
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Trang is currently serving nine years in prison as a result of that conviction and was among at least 23 journalists arrested for their reporting in Vietnam during CPJ’s 2021 prison census, which ranks the country among the five worst guards in the world. for the press.
Galina Timchenko, Russia
Timchenko is the editor of Meduza, an independent Russian news website based in Riga, Latvia. Selected by CPJ to receive the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award, honoring the veteran journalist of the same name, NGO consultant who died in 2016.
During Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, the Russian journalist was sacked as editor-in-chief of the country’s main news website, Lenta.ru, and was replaced by a pro-Kremlin successor.
Almost half of Lenta.ru employees resigned in protest.
Timchenko and many of his colleagues fled to Latvia and founded Meduza to cater to Russian-speaking audiences away from censorship. The site was blocked in Russia and tagged as a “foreign agent”.
The delivery of the awards will take place during a dinner in New York in November.
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