Is Journalism Worth Dying For__ Final Dispatches - Anna Politkovskaya [222]
December. Moscow. Winner of the Andrey Sakharov Prize for Journalism as Action. For consistently defending the rights and freedoms of inhabitants of Chechnya and courage in exposing war crimes.
2003
USA. Europe’s Heroes nomination by Time magazine.
February. Vienna. Prize for Journalism and Democracy of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. For courageous professional activity in support of human rights and freedom of the mass media, for publications on the state of human rights in Chechnya.
October. Berlin. Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage, established by Lettre International magazine, the Aventis Foundation, and the Goethe Institute, for her book Tchétchénie, le déshonneur russe, published in France.
November. Darmstadt. Prize of the German PEN Center and Hermann Kesten Medal. For courageous reporting of events in Chechnya.
2005
January. Stockholm. Olof Palme Prize, the Olof Palme Foundation. For courage and strength when reporting in difficult and dangerous circumstances, shared with Ludmila Alexeyeva and Sergey Kovalyov.
April. Leipzig. Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media, Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig. For her contribution to developing freedom of the press.
October. New York. Civil Courage Prize of the Northcote Parkinson Fund [now the Train Foundation]. For steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk. [John Train is the father-in-law of American journalist Paul Klebnikov who was murdered in Moscow.]
2006
October [posthumously]. Tiziano Terzani International Literary Prize. To mark the rare moral courage of Anna Politkovskaya, who paid with her life for criticising abuses of power.
December. Reporter of the Year, National Union of Italian Reporters, to Anna Politkovskaya who “died defending her right to bring the truth to the public, and people’s right to obtain truthful and free information.”
“Flouting the Law,” annual prize for journalism, awarded by the Open Russia Foundation.
For Valour, special award from the Artyom Borovik Prize committee.
2007
Paris. UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. “Anna Politkovskaya showed incredible courage and stubbornness in chronicling events in Chechnya after the whole world had given up on that conflict. Her dedication and fearless pursuit of the truth set the highest benchmark of journalism, not only for Russia but for the rest of the world. Indeed, Anna’s courage and commitment were so remarkable that we decided, for the first time, to award the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize posthumously.”
July. Washington, DC. John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award, the National Press Club. “Anna Politkovskaya, who never let death threats deter her from her remarkable reporting of the conflict in Chechnya, deserves to be remembered and honored for her courage and commitment to journalism.”
September. Washington, DC. Democracy Award to Spotlight Press Freedom, the National Endowment for Democracy. “Throughout her distinguished career as a Russian journalist, Anna was an outspoken advocate for human rights and an end to the devastating war in Chechnya.”
October 7. The first Anna Politkovskaya Award “to recognise women who are defending human rights in zones of war and conflict” was presented to Natalia Estemirova, “a close friend and colleague of Anna as well as a courageous human rights defender and freelance journalist, working in Chechnya for the human rights organization, Memorial.”
The Prize was instituted by Reach All Women in War, with the support of the Nobel Peace Prize winners Mairead Maguire, Betty Williams, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchú Tum and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as Elena Bonner, Tatiana Yankelevich, President Václav Havel, Harold Pinter, The Hon. Zbigniew Brzezinski,