{"id":21322,"date":"2011-03-14T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T11:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=21322"},"modified":"2011-03-25T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T10:06:50","slug":"freedom-o-expression-awards-2011-the-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=21322","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Expression Awards 2011: The shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Index on Censorship has published the shortlist for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/awards2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom of Expression Awards 2011<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 11th annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards honour  those who, often at great personal risk, give voice to issues and  stories  from around the globe that may  otherwise have passed unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s ceremony on 24 March 2011 will be hosted by broadcaster <strong>Jonathan  Dimbleby<\/strong> at the Royal Institution in London, with a keynote  speech  by Booker Prize-winning novelist <strong>Howard Jacobson<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/tickets-external?eid=1257839231&amp;ref=etckt\" target=\"_blank\">Click  here to buy tickets.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Award judges introduce the nominees in each category at these links:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/03\/free-expression-awards-2011-law-and-campaigning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bindmans award for Law and Campaigning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/03\/free-expression-awards-2011-law-and-campaigning\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/03\/free-expression-awards-2011-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian Journalism award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/03\/free-expression-awards-2011-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intelligent Life Arts award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/03\/free-expression-awards-2011-new-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Media award, supported by Google<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nominees for this year\u2019s awards, presented in association with  <strong>SAGE<\/strong>, include Egyptian newspaper editor <strong>Ibrahim   Eissa<\/strong>, British playwright <strong>Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti<\/strong>,   campaigning Pakistani politician <strong>Sherry Rehman<\/strong> and  <strong>MF Husain<\/strong>, regarded as India\u2019s greatest living artist. There will also be a special commendation, presented by <strong>Sir Tom   Stoppard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominees for this year&#8217;s awards, presented in association with SAGE, include Egyptian newspaper editor Ibrahim Eissa, British playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, campaigning Pakistani politician Sherry Rehman and artist MF Husain <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[3187,3188,628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21322"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21327,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21322\/revisions\/21327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}