{"id":78179,"date":"2008-12-16T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=78179"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:24:17","slug":"index-censorship-award-winners-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=78179","title":{"rendered":"Index on Censorship Award winners 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Guardian Journalism Award\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arat Dink<\/strong>, editor of Turkey\u2019s only Armenian newspaper\u00a0<em>Agos<\/em>, is the son of the assassinated journalist Hrant Dink. He continued his assassinated father&#8217;s work, providing a media outlet for an oppressed people whilst under continuous harassment by the Turkish authorities. On 11 October 2007 Arat Dink was sentenced to a year in prison for re-publishing his father&#8217;s interview to Reuters, where his father had stressed the necessity of recognising the \u2018Armenian Genocide\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrantdink.org\/en\/hrantdink\/life\/\">http:\/\/www.hrantdink.org\/en\/hrantdink\/life\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Economist New Media Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded by Chinese dissidents, along with journalists, mathematicians and IT experts from around the world,\u00a0<strong>Wikileaks<\/strong>\u2019 aim is to develop \u2018an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/Wikileaks\">http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/Wikileaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Index Film Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ahlaam (Dreams)<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Mohammed Al-Daradji<\/strong>\u00a0is a powerful depiction of the desperate situation in Iraq before and during the American invasion in 2003. During the making of the film members of the team were abducted, interrogated and even killed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahlaamthemovie.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ahlaamthemovie.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>T. R. Fyvel Book Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Art of Political Murder: Who killed Bishop Gerardi?<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Francisco Goldman<\/strong>\u00a0uncovers the reality of organized crime and political corruption in Guantemala investigating into the killing of Guatemala\u2019s leading human rights activist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bindmans Law and Campaigning Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>U Gambira\u00a0<\/strong>is the pseudonym of the leader of the All-Burma Monks Alliance, which organised and spearheaded the nationwide protest in Burma in 2007. The brutal crackdown that followed forced him into hiding until he was detained in November 2007 where he his ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the winners of the 2008 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\/78179"}],"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=78179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78181,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78179\/revisions\/78181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}