Question: Who has won the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize,2019?
(a) Wa Lone
(b) Kyaw Soe Oo
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) Mazen Darwish
Answer: (c)
Related facts:
- Journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone (both Myanmar) won this year’s UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize.
- Both laureates were announced seven-year prison sentences for breaking the country’s secrets law for their journalistic investigation.
- At the time of their arrest in Yangon on 12th December 2017, they were working for the Reuters news agency, reporting on alleged human rights violations in Myanmar’s state of Rakhine.
- The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was awarded on 2nd May as part of the celebration of World Press Freedom Day which took place in Ethiopia on 3rd May, 2019.
- This year’s theme for the day is ‘Media for Democracy: Journalism and elections in times of disinformation’.
About the Prize:
- Awarded annually, the $25,000 Prize is named in honour of Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper El Espectador in Bogotá, Colombia on 17th December 1986.
- It is funded by the Guillermo Cano Isaza Foundation (Colombia) and the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (Finland).
Links:
https://en.unesco.org/prizes/guillermo-cano/about-prize
https://en.unesco.org/news/reuters-reporters-wa-lone-and-kyaw-soe-oo-receive-2019-unescoguillermo-cano-press-freedom-prize