Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim, a participant in the Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders At Risk at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at York University, was jailed in his native Somalia in 2013 after he interviewed a woman who claimed she was raped by government security forces. On 21 February 2014 he was honored as the recipient of the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award For Freedom Of Expression which recognises writers who have been persecuted for their work and continue to write
via Persecuted journalist in spotlight at University of York From York Press.
http://www.pen-international.org/oxfam-novibpen-award-for-freedom-of-expression/
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
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