IPI WORLD PRESS FREEDOM HEROES

 
50 Years, 50 Press Freedom Heroes
By Tom Winship

Choosing Heroes is a Difficult Task
By Raymond Louw

In Celebration of Press Defenders
By Johann Fritz

50 Press Freedom Heroes
By Michael Kudlak
The author of the profiles, Michael Kudlak, is press freedom adviser and congress coordinator of IPI. His sources were material sent by the press heroes or their relatives, material from the Inter-American Press Association, Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters sans Frontieres, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, Media Institute of Southern Africa, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encarta Online Encyclopaedia, Commonwealth Press Union, World Association of Newspapers and documents at IPI headquarters, including the IPI Report and World Press Freedom Review.
 
Aslam Ali, Pakistan
Rudolf Augstein, Germany
Omar Belhouchet, Algeria
Kenneth Best, Liberia
Hubert Beuve-Méry, France
Jesús Blancornelas, Mexico
José Burgos, Jr., Philippines
Guillermo Cano, Colombia
Juan Pablo Cárdenas, Chile
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, Nicaragua
Suk-Chae Choi, Korea
Júlio De Mesquita Neto, Brazil
Jiri Dienstbier, Czechoslovakia
Doan Viet Hoat, Vietnam
Harold Evans, United Kingdom
Antonio Fontán, Spain
Gao Yu, P.R. of China
Katharine Graham, USA
Grémah Boucar, Niger
Veronica Guerin, Ireland
Shiro Hara, Japan
Amira Hass, Israel
Tara Singh Hayer, Canada
Abdi Ipekci, Turkey
Kemal Kurspahic, Bosnia-Herzegovina		 Daoud Kuttab, Palestine
Gwen Lister, Namibia
Mochtar Lubis, Indonesia
Kronid Lyubarsky, Russia
Fred M’membe, Zambia
Savea Sano Malifa, Samoa
Veran Matic, Yugoslavia
Adam Michnik, Poland
Indro Montanelli, Italy
Nizar Nayyouf, Syria
Freedom Neruda, Ivory Coast
Pius Njawe, Cameroon
Germán Ornes, Dominican Republic
Percy Qoboza, South Africa
Raúl Rivero, Cuba
Nuno Rocha, Portugal
Faraj Sarkuhi, Iran
Arun Shourie, India
André Sibomana, Rwanda
U Thaung, Myanmar
Jacobo Timerman, Argentina
Ricardo Uceda, Peru
Eleni Vlachou, Greece
C.E.L. Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka
José Rubén Zamora, Guatemala