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Gauri Lankesh honoured
October 6 , 2017
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- Prominent journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh has been posthumously awarded the 2017 Anna Politkovskaya Award.
- The award is given by a London-based non-governmental organisation “Reach All Women in War (RAW in War)”
- Gauri Lankesh has become the first Indian to win this award.
- Anna was a Russian journalist and human rights activist who got international reputation by uncovering state corruption and rights abuses from Chechenya during the second Chechen war (1999-2005).
- The award by RAW in WAR was established to mark the anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder.
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