Previous winners have been Zlatko Dizdarevic (Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992), Wang Juntao (China, 1993), André Sibomana (Rwanda, 1994), Chris Anyanwu (Nigeria, 1995), Isik Yurtçu (Turkey, 1996), Raúl Rivero (Cuba, 1997), Nizar Nayyuf (Syria, 1998), San San Nweh (Burma, 1999), Carmen Gurruchaga (Spain, 2000) and Reza Alijani (Iran, 2001), who was freed in December last year, a few weeks after being awarded the 10th Reporters Without Borders - Fondation de France Prize.
The five journalists nominated for the 11th prize are:
Gao Qinrong, of the Chinese official news agency Xinhua, who was sentenced in April 1999 to 13 years in prison for having investigated and written about a failed irrigation project in the Yuncheng region of Shanxi province (China);
Bernardo Arévalo Padrón, founder of the Cuban independent news agency Línea Sur Press, who was jailed for six years in November 1997 for "insulting" President Fidel Castro and Vice-President Carlos Lage by calling them "liars" for not keeping promises of democracy they made at an Ibero-American Summit (Cuba);
Michèle Montas, head of Radio Haïti Inter, who has been fighting against impunity since her husband, journalist Jean Dominique, was murdered in April 2000 (Haiti);
The five journalists nominated for the 11th prize are:
Gao Qinrong, of the Chinese official news agency Xinhua, who was sentenced in April 1999 to 13 years in prison for having investigated and written about a failed irrigation project in the Yuncheng region of Shanxi province (China);
Bernardo Arévalo Padrón, founder of the Cuban independent news agency Línea Sur Press, who was jailed for six years in November 1997 for "insulting" President Fidel Castro and Vice-President Carlos Lage by calling them "liars" for not keeping promises of democracy they made at an Ibero-American Summit (Cuba);
Michèle Montas, head of Radio Haïti Inter, who has been fighting against impunity since her husband, journalist Jean Dominique, was murdered in April 2000 (Haiti);