{"id":78162,"date":"2001-03-01T15:53:34","date_gmt":"2001-03-01T15:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=78162"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:16:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:16:32","slug":"index-censorship-award-winners-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=78162","title":{"rendered":"Index on Censorship Award winners 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most Courageous Defence of Free Expression Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mashallah Shamsolvaezin<\/strong>\u00a0is a prominent Iranian journalist and press rights activist. In April 2000 he was sentenced to 30 months in jail for \u2018insulting Islamic values\u2019 after criticising Iran\u2019s capital punishment practices in public. He was released on bail before finishing his sentence. The newspapers he was editing were banned between 1998 and 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Circumvention of Censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lorrie Cranor<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Avi Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Marc Waldman<\/strong>\u00a0invented the Publius Publishing System that is highly resistant to censorship and provides publishers with a high degree of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.nyu.edu\/~waldman\/publius\/publius.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cs.nyu.edu\/~waldman\/publius\/publius.pdf<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>International Whistleblower of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grigory Pasko<\/strong>, a former naval officer and journalist with the Russian Navy\u2019s newspaper, was imprisoned in 1997 for exposing the illegal dumping of toxic waste in the Sea of Japan in his investigative reports. Since his release in 2003, he is campaigning for human rights and the protection of the environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award for Services to Censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For prosecuting whistleblowers under the Official Secrets Act, the\u00a0<strong>UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)\u00a0<\/strong>was given this ironic award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the winners of the 2001 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8935],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162"}],"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=78162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78163,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162\/revisions\/78163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}