Gauri Lankesh Posthumously Honoured With Anna Politkovskaya Award
7th October, 2017Category: National
Gauri Lankesh, journalist and editor of Kannada tabloid Gauri Lankesh Patrike, who was shot dead in her home on September 5, has been posthumously honoured with the annual Anna Politkovskaya Award on Thursday. This year the award, given out by Reach All Women in RAW, also went to Pakistani activist Gulalai Ismail. Ismail has faced death threats for speaking out against the Taliban in northwest Pakistan. She is the 12th woman to receive this prestigious award.
Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist. She was killed in 2006 in Moscow for her courage to speak out on behalf of the suffering of the civilians in the war in Chechnya
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