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2018 UNESCO Press Freedom Prize

April 27 , 2018 2258 days 838 0
  • Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, popularly known as Shawkan, will be awarded United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) for year 2018.
  • The award was established in 1997 by United Nations’ cultural body UNESCO’s in honour of Colombian journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza.
  • It honours person, organization or institution for their outstanding contribution to the defence and promotion of freedom of press anywhere in the world, especially achieved in face of danger.
  • Guillermo Cano Isaza was a Colombian journalist was assassinated on 17 December 1986 in front of the offices of his newspaper, El Espectador in Bogota because of his publishment on Colombian internal issues.

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