Committee to Protect Journalists bestow award on Ukrainska Pravda editor-in-chief Sevgil Musaieva

The Committee to Protect Journalists has awarded the International Press Freedom Award to Sevgil Musaieva, the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda.

Source: Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent organisation that promotes press freedom, on Twitter

Details: Among this year's laureates, in addition to Sevgil Musayeva, were the editor-in-chief of the independent Russian news website Meduza, Galina Timchenko, as well as Cuban freelance journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa, Iraqi Kurdish freelance journalist Niyaz Abdullah and Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang.

The award ceremony took place on 17 November in New York.

The editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, during her speech, talked about the death of her colleague and classmate, the documentarian Brent Renaud, in the war in Ukraine, as well as about the Russian rocket that hit a house in Kyiv next door to hers.

Quote: "War is always about choices, which one has to make every day, and a journalist [has to do so] all the time.

Should you publish lists of Russian military personnel when they are a few kilometres away from the families of your staff? Should you talk about a friend who has been captured and is being tortured, and his parents are against your [disclosing it] because it might hurt him?"

The full text of the speech is available here.

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