International Women’s Media Foundation: A Belarusian journalist who is frequently detained and subjected to all-night interrogations by police, a Cameroonian radio journalist whose broadcasts on human rights and press freedom have put her life at risk and an Iranian journalist whose reports about sensitive social and political issues have led to multiple arrests are recipients of this year’s International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Awards.
“These remarkable journalists have chosen to report the news in three countries where pursuit of the truth puts them at risk for arrest, physical attacks and even death,” said Judy Woodruff, chair of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards. “Still, they have consistently, for many years, chosen to risk their lives and livelihoods in pursuing stories that illuminate the lives of people in their countries and enlighten us all.”
Jila Baniyaghoob, 38, freelance reporter and editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani (Focus on Iranian Women), Iran. Baniyaghoob works in one of the most restrictive environments for both journalists and women in the world. Still, she has fearlessly reported on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women. She has been fired from several jobs because she refuses to censor the subject matter of her reporting and several of her media outlets have been closed by the government. She has travelled throughout the Middle East, writing accounts of the lives of women and refugees during times of conflict. The topics of her reporting make her a target of the Iranian government. She has been beaten, arrested and imprisoned numerous times.
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I wonder...
by Ali P. on Wed May 20, 2009 10:47 AM PDTif she is somehow related to Dr Zahra Baniyaghoob , who was found dead in her cell a few years ago in Hamadan.
Does anybody know?
Dear Jila
by Active (not verified) on Wed May 20, 2009 07:21 AM PDTThank you for your work. I recall that during 911 non of the reporters were allowed to report without being carefully monitored. This has also been true for the war and war crimes that is happening today. No pictures, no reports, no nothing.
Dear Jila, people are well aware about the developing societies that are growing like the US did some seventy or eighty years ago. Coping with racism, discrimination. and injustices. Thankfully many of those issues are (solved) in the most of the Western world. We are aware about the lack of women rights in Saudi. I believe it is a public knowledge. As a reporter, however, aren't you interested to know more about the behind the scenes of the US politics and war crimes and tortures?
Would you be put in jail? be beaten and taken to prison if you did not obey the US government and did what you felt is right?
Thank you for your hard work and hope that you consider reporting things that many people are in denial about not things that we all are aware.
My Congratulations
by MiNeum71 on Wed May 20, 2009 02:31 AM PDTJila Baniyaghoob does a tremendous job, she is a true icon.
bravo
by hamsade ghadimi on Tue May 19, 2009 09:29 PM PDTdorood bar een shirzan, banoo baniyaghoob, ke vaghean maye eftekhare iranian ast.