The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia for their “courageous fight” to safeguard freedom of expression.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday that the prize recognised the pair as “representatives of all journalists . . . in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions”.
Ressa is co-founder and chief executive of Rappler, a Philippine news website. Launched in 2012, it has been the target of multiple ongoing criminal prosecutions by authorities in the south-east Asian nation.
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