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2005 •
Sihem Bensedrine (Tunisia), journalist and human rights activist •
Neziha Rejiba (Tunisia), journalist and editor •
Sarah Mkhonza (Swaziland), novelist and columnist •
Claudia Anthony (Sierra Leone), journalist •
Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam), novelist •
2006 •
Simon Mol (Poland), journalist •
Andrej Dyńko (Belarus) •
Roya Toloui (Iran/Kurdistan) •
Faraj Bayrakdar (Syria) •
Hrant Dink (Turkey) •
2007 •
Fatou Jaw-Manneh (Gambia), journalist •
Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus), writer •
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro (Mexico), writer •
Ekbal Baraka (Egypt) •
2008 •
Dejan Anastasijevic (Serbia), journalist •
Pierre Roger Lambo Sanjo (Cameroon), writer •
Christopher Mlalazi and
Raisedon Baya (Zimbabwe), playwrights •
Maung Thura and
Saw Wei (Burma), poets •
2009 •
Chi Dang (Vietnam), writer •
Maziar Bahari (Iranian-Canadian), journalist •
Irakli Kakabadze (Georgia), writer •
Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge (Sri Lanka), journalist •
Daniel Coronell (Colombia), columnist •
2010 [no award] •
2011 •
Andrei Nekrasov (Russia), film and journalist •
Sakit Zahidov (Azerbaijan), journalist and poet •
Nedim Şener (Turkey), journalist •
J.S. Tissainayagam (Sri Lanka), journalist •
2012 •
Asieh Amini (Iran), journalist, blogger and activist •
Jesús Lemus Barajas (Mexico), journalist and writer •
Mikhail Bekhetof (Russia), journalist •
Rachid Nini (Morocco), newspaper editor •
Alhaj Warrag and
Abdul Moniem Suleman (Sudan), newspaper founder/editor; and columnist (respectively) •
2013 •
Samar Yazbek (Syria), writer and journalist •
Enoh Meyomesse (Cameroon) Writer, activist •
Nargess Mohammadi (Iran), journalist activist •
Deo Namujimbo (Congo), journalist •
Busra Ersanli (Turkey), writer, academic •
2014 •
Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim (Somalia), freelance journalist •
Oksana Chelysheva (Russia), journalist, activist •
Dina Meza (Honduras), journalist, activist •
2015 •
Bahman Ahmadi-Amouee and
Jila Bani Yaghoub (Iran), journalists •
Razan Naiem Almoghrabi (Libya), writer, journalist, and advocate of women's rights •
Abdelmoneim Rahama (Sudan), poet, writer and journalist •
2016 •
Amanuel Asrat (Eritrea), poet, writer and editor-in-chief •
Can Dündar (Turkey), writer and journalist •
Omar Hazek (Egypt), poet and writer •
2017 •
Ashraf Fayadh (Saudi Arabia), imprisoned poet •
Malini Subramaniam (India), journalist •
2018 •
Eskinder Nega (Ethiopian), journalist •
Milagros Socorro (Venezuelan), journalist •
2019 •
Dareen Tatour (Palestinian), poet •
Gioconda Belli (Nicaraguan), author •
Roberto Saviano (Italian), journalist •
2020 •
Stella Nyanzi (Ugandan), academic, writer and feminist activist. •
2021 •
Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwean), author ==References==