|
Ossietzky Prize
The Ossietzky Award ( no, Ossietzkyprisen ) is a prize awarded by the Norwegian chapter of P.E.N., for extraordinary contributions to freedom of speech. The prize is named after writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky. Recipients * Aziz Nesin (1993) * Axel Jensen (1994) * Johanna Schwarz (1995) * Koigi wa Wamwere (1996) * Haakon Børde (1997) * Ketil Lund (1998) * Wera Sæther (1999) * Britt Karin Larsen (2000) * Sigmund Strømme (2001) * Elisabeth Eide (2002) * Stavanger Municipality (2003) * Aage Storm Borchgrevink (2004) * Fakhra Salimi (2005) * Ebba Haslund (2006) * Democratic Voice of Burma (2007) * Francis Sejersted and Chungdak Koren (2008) * Mohammed Omer (2009) * Mansour Koushan (2010) * Mohammad Mostafaei (2011) * Deeyah Khan (2012) * Sidsel Mørck (2013) * Sidsel Wold (2014) * Irina Scherbakowa (2014) * Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen (2015) * Edward Snowden (2016) * Tormod Heier (2017) * Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (2018) * Afshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-93516-0010, Carl Von Ossietzky
, type = Archive , seal = , seal_size = , seal_caption = , seal_alt = , logo = Bundesarchiv-Logo.svg , logo_size = , logo_caption = , logo_alt = , image = Bundesarchiv Koblenz.jpg , image_caption = The Federal Archives in Koblenz , image_alt = , formed = , preceding1 = , preceding2 = , dissolved = , superseding1 = , superseding2 = , agency_type = , jurisdiction = , status = Active , headquarters = PotsdamerStraße156075Koblenz , coordinates = , motto = , employees = , budget = million () , chief1_name = Michael Hollmann , chief1_position = President of the Federal Archives , chief2_name = Dr. Andrea Hänger , chief2_position ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fakhra Salimi
Fakhra Salimi (born 18 November 1957 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-born Norwegian human rights activist, feminist, journalist and editor. She is founder and executive director of the MiRA Resource Centre for Black, Immigrant and Refugee Women. The centre has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is under the royal patronage of Queen Sonja of Norway. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Norwegian Centre Against Racism (1980–2003), a co-founder and member of the board of the directors of the Forum for Women and Development (1990–1995), a member of the advisory council of the Norwegian Study of Power and Democracy (1998–2003), a board member of Oslo University College, a jury member of the Norwegian government's Human Rights Prize for Journalists (2005–2009), and was a co-founder and the first vice president of the Norwegian Women's Lobby. Salimi moved to Norway in 1979, and has studied sociology, anthropology, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was an employee and subcontractor. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy. In 2013, Snowden was hired by an NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, after previous employment with Dell and the CIA. Snowden says he gradually became disillusioned with the programs with which he was involved, and that he tried to raise his ethical concerns through internal channels but was ignored. On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii, and in early June he revealed thousands of class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen
Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen (born 4 May 1972) is a Norwegian film director, producer and writer. He is best known for his action drama ''IZZAT'' (2005), his TV series ''TAXI'' (2011) as well as documentary films ''Voluntarily Forced'' (2014) and '' Recruiting for Jihad'' (2017). He often addresses national- and global discussion concerning immigration and racism both in his films as well as being an outspoken newspaper columnist and television debattant. In 2012 he founded the Oslo-based production company Curry Film AS. Other films directed by him, are the crime thriller ''Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers'' (2007) and the slacker comedy ''The Last Joint Venture'' (2008). Filmography * ''Import Eksport'' (2005) - co-director * ''IZZAT'' (2005) - writer/ director * ''Varg Veum-Bitter Flowers'' (2007) - director * ''The Last Joint Venture'' (2008) * ''TAXI'' (2011) - writer/ director * ''Haram'' (2014) - director/ producer * ''Voluntarily Forced'' (2014) (documentary) - director/ producer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Scherbakowa
Irina Lazarevna S(ch)herbakova (in Russian : Ирина Лазаревна Щербакова) (born 1949) is a Russian historian of the modern age, an author and a founding member of Memorial. She was awarded the Carl von Ossietsky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics in 2014, and the Goethe Medal in 2017. She has been studying Russia's modern history since the 1970s. Memorial was identified as one of Russia's "foreign agents" in 2016. In 2022, Memorial has been co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Life Shcherbakova was born in Moscow in 1949. Her parents were Jewish communists. When she went to university, she studied German and earned her doctorate in 1972. She then became a translator working on fiction. In the 1970s she began to record interviews with witnesses to Stalinism. She interviewed Gulag survivors who were afraid and would not talk if their recollections were recorded on a tape recorder. In 1988 Shcherbakova was one of the founding members of the organisat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidsel Wold
Sidsel Wold (born 23 February 1959) is a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer. She is known as Middle East correspondent for NRK, and is a recipient of the Ossietzky Award and the Gullruten honorary award. Personal life and education Wold was born in Oslo on 23 February 1959, and grew up in Oslo and Bærum. In 1978 she worked at a kibbutz in Israel and learned speaking Hebrew. She has studied Russian language, history and political science at the University of Oslo. She graduated from in 1990. Wold is married to journalist, non-fiction writer and globetrotter Ragnar Kvam Jr. Career Wold worked as journalist for the newspaper ''Morgenbladet'' from 1987 to 1988, before her journalist studies. After graduating as journalist in 1990, she started working as program host and reporter for NRK, both radio and television, where she hosted radio shows such as ''Her og nå'' and ''Timen er din''. From 2007 to 2011 she was NRK's correspondent for the Middle East region, based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidsel Mørck
Sidsel Mørck (born 28 November 1937) is a Norwegian poet, novelist and columnist. Her awards include the Fritt Ord honorary award and the Ossietzky Award. Career Mørck made her literary debut in 1967 with the poetry collection ''Et ødselt sekund''. Further poetry collections are ''Dager kan vokse'' from 1969, ''Apropos'' (1970), ''Først var det små rom'' (1971), ''I forhold til'' (1973), ''En mykere morgen'' (1977), ''Byliv'' (1980), and ''Hver eneste natt'' from 1990. Her collections of songs and poetry for children include ''Erta, berta sukkererta'' from 1978, ''Sur og blid-vers'' (1987), ''På tvers-vers'' (1993) and ''Hit og dit-vers'' (2002). In total, she has published over 30 novels, short stories and collections of poems for adults and children. As an activist, she has written over 120 articles on social issues, particularly environmental protection and industrial pollution, and given a number of lectures. In 2013, Mørck received the Ossietzky Award, in recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deeyah Khan
Deeyah Khan ( ur, , , born 7 August 1977) is a Norwegian documentary film director and human rights activist of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. Deeyah is a two-time Emmy Award winner, two time Peabody Award winner, a BAFTA winner and has received the Royal Television Society award for Best Factual Director. She has made six documentaries to date, all have been shown on ITV in the UK as part of its Exposure series. Her debut film as director and producer, ''Banaz A Love Story'' (2012) about the honor killing of a British-Kurdish woman won an Emmy and a Peabody. Her second documentary, '' Jihad: A Story of the Others'', nominated for a BAFTA, Grierson and Monte-Carlo Television Festival involved two years interviewing Islamic extremists and convicted terrorists. Her 2017 documentary '' White Right: Meeting The Enemy'' was also Bafta-nominated and won an Emmy award for Best International Current Affairs Documentary and the Rory Peck Award for Best Current Affairs documentary in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Mostafaei
Mohammad Mostafaei ( fa, محمد مصطفایی) is an Iranian human rights lawyer specializing in death penalty cases, particularly those with juvenile defendants and other human rights cases. In 2010, he moved to Norway, having left Iran due to alleged persecution by authorities for his defense of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. Background Mostafaei remembered his childhood as difficult due to his family's poverty and his father's extreme mood swings. At the age of 14, he attended a public hanging of "a very young man" and was profoundly disturbed by the sight, an incident he later credited with his decision to study law. Mostafaei is married to Fereshteh Halimi. They have two daughters. Legal work Mostafaei states that he appealed forty death sentences of juvenile defendants during his work in Iran, of which eighteen were overturned. Four of his clients were executed in 2008 and 2009. Mostafaei became widely known for his work on human rights cases specially on death penalty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansour Koushan
Mansour Koushan (Persian: منصور کوشان) (26 December 1948 Isfahan, Iran – 16 February 2014 Stavanger, Norway) was a prominent Iranian novelist, poet, playwright, editor and director. He received the Ossietzky Award in 2010 for his outstanding work for human rights and freedom of expression. He was an active member of Iranian Writers’ Association and a strong opponent to the Iranian regime. In December 1998 Koushan was invited by the Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression to deliver a speech at the 50th anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights Charter. Not long after, he received news that two of his friends and colleagues Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh had been abducted and killed in Tehran. His name was likewise on the regimes death list. These killings were part of what is known as Chain Murders of Iran. Koushan was then forced to live in exile and resided in Norway the rest of his life. In Iran Koushan was the editor of independen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Omer (journalist)
Mohammed Omer ( ar, محمد عمر), (born 1984) is a Palestinian journalist. He has reported for numerous media outlets, including ''The New York Times'', the ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'', Al Jazeera, ''New Statesman'', Pacifica Radio, Electronic Intifada, ''The Nation'', Inter Press Service, Free Speech Radio News, ''Vermont Guardian'', ''ArtVoice Weekly'', the Norwegian ''Morgenbladet'', and ''Dagsavisen'', the Swedish dailies ''Dagen Nyheter'' and ''Aftonbladet'' the Swedish magazine ''Arbetaren'', the Basque daily ''Berria'', the German daily ''Junge Welt'' and the Finish magazine ''Ny Tid''. He also founded ''Rafah Today'' and is the author of several books, including ''Shell-Shocked'' Awards In 2008, Omer was awarded the 2007 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism."Martha Gellhorn" '' |
