Which Indian journalist has been honoured with the CPJ’s 2016 International Press Freedom Award?
Which Indian journalist has been honoured with the CPJ’s 2016 International Press Freedom Award?
[A]Malini Subramaniam
[B]Zafarul Islam Khan
[C]Prannoy Lal Roy
[D]Palagummi Sainath
Malini Subramaniam
Indian journalist Malini Subramaniam has been conferred with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)’s 2016 International Press Freedom at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Subramaniam has won the award for reporting on human rights violations by security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, despite facing threats and censure from authorities. She won the award along with El Salvador’s Oscar Martinez and Turkey’s Can Dundar. Jailed Egyptian photographer Abou Zeid, known as Shawkan, was given an award in absentia.