19 February 2010 08:38 am Views - 4529
The nomination of Lasantha Wickrematunge was unanimously approved by the five-member IPI World Press Freedom Hero jury that had included Raymond Louw the Editor & Publisher of the Southern Africa Report; N. Ravi the Editor of The Hindu in India; Galina Sidorova Editor-in-Chief at Sovershenno Secretno in Russia; Ferai Tinc, Columnist at the Hürriyet Daily in Turkey; and H.D.S. Greenway, Columnist; former Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA.
Wickrematunge will also be one of 60 World Press Freedom Heroes honoured in a ceremony to commemorate IPI’s 60th year of defending press freedom worldwide, at the IPI World Congress in
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