Indian journalist Malini Subramaniam writing for Scroll, a news website has received the International Press Freedom Award
for reporting from the Naxal infested Bastar Area - she is one of 4 journalists who won the annual award for commitment to free press
She was honoured by the Committee to Protect Journalists 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.
Subramaniam has reported on abuses by police and security forces, sexual violence against women, the jailing of minors, the shutdown of schools, extrajudicial killings, and threats against journalists in the Bastar region in Chattisgarh.
CPJ International Press Freedom Award- Honours journalists or publications exhibiting courage in defending press freedom despite attacks, threats or imprisonment
- Established in 1991
- Awards given by CPJ, an Independent NGO based in NY
- Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for “lifelong work to advance press freedom” is also conferred by CPJ.
