Raif Badawi Award

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The Raif Badawi Award for courageous journalists is a prize for journalists who draw attention to human rights violations and grievances in societies characterized by Islam. At the same time, he should remember the case of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi , who was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, a thousand lashes and a heavy fine for allegedly "insulting Islam".

Origin and history

The award was jointly initiated by Raif Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, and the journalist Constantin Schreiber . The first prize winner in 2015 was the Morocco- born journalist Ali Anouzla , the award ceremony took place during the Federal Media Ball. In 2016, the journalists from Dange NWE refugee radio from Northern Iraq received the award. The laudation for the award was given in 2016 by Can Dündar , the former editor-in-chief of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet . The Friedrich Naumann Foundation has awarded the prize for freedom since 2016. Since then, the award ceremony has taken place at the Frankfurt Book Fair . In 2017 the award went to the Turkish investigative journalist Ahmet Şık , “on behalf of all journalists who are in Turkish prisons”. In 2018 the award was given to the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ). ARIJ founder and director Rana Sabbagh accepted the award. The award is supported by the German Book Trade Association.

jury

The jury consists of (as of 2017)

Award winners

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Moroccan journalist Ali Anouzla receives the first Raif Badawi Award. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, November 13, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Inga Rogg: Journalist Prize Raif Badawi Award. A voice for refugees. taz.de, October 18, 2016, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ “In these times, courageous journalists like you are needed!” The Foundation for Freedom awards the Raif Badawi Award 2016. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, October 20, 2016, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ 3sat.online: Turkish journalist Sik honored with “Raif Badawi Award” - Kulturzeit-News from Wednesday, October 11, 2017. Accessed on December 7, 2017 . Refugee journalists from Halabja (Iraq) win the Raif Badawi Award 2016. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, September 26, 2016, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  5. ^ Raif Badawi Award for Ahmet Sik , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, September 8, 2017, accessed on September 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ WDR.de: Ahmet Şık receives Raif Badawi Award 2017 | Raif Badawi 2017 Gazetecilik Ödülü Ahmet Şık'a verildi . Ed .: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln. September 10, 2017 ( wdr.de [accessed November 27, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Raif Badawi Award 2018 - “A collective success story” , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on October 11, 2018.
  8. ↑ Frankfurt Book Fair: Raif Badawi Award for the Turkish journalist Ahmet Şik / “Freedom of expression is a human right”. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, accessed on December 7, 2017 .
  9. ↑ DWDL.de GmbH: Moroccan journalist receives Raif Badawi Award - DWDL.de . In: DWDL.de . ( dwdl.de [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  10. ^ Reporters Without Borders eV: Raif Badawi Award for Journalist Ali Anouzla - Reporters Without Borders for Freedom of Information . ( reporter-ohne-grenzen.de [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik awarded , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, October 11, 2017, accessed on October 11, 2017.
  12. ↑ Raif Badawi Award 2018 - “A collective success story” , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on October 11, 2018.
  13. ↑ Press release of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, October 16, 2019 , on freiheit.org.