Friday 1 December 2017

Khaled el-Balshy an Egyptian journalist has won the Nelson Mandela award for individual activism for 2017

Khaled el-Balshy an Egyptian journalist has won the Nelson Mandela award for individual activism for 2017

Khaled el-Balshy, a former board member of Egypt’s Journalists’ Union, will receive the Individual Activist award of the Nelson Mandela - Graca Machel Innovation Awards on Dec. 7 in Fiji’s capital Suva,

 South African organization Johannesburg-based organization, Civicus which operates in 145 countries around the world, began granting the awards named after Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça Machel in 2005, for those “who have demonstrated remarkable courage and commitment in the pursuit of social change.”

Egypt was ranked 161 out of 180 countries in the 2017 Press Freedom Index,

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