Oxfam Novib PEN Award for Armenian journalist
ANP (Dutch News Agency)
13 November 2006
The Hague (ANP) – The Armenian journalist Hrant Dink won the Oxfam
Novib PEN Award, Oxfam Novib announced on Monday. The journalist will
be granted the award this Saturday by Mayer of The Hague Wim Deetman
at the occasion of the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague. The
Award includes an amount of money of 2500 euro.
The Awards have the intention of encouraging writers who are being
persecuted. Dink recently was given a suspended prison sentence
in Turkey of half a year, because of writing about the Armenian
Genocide. He also has to face the judge on a critical article he
wrote about a prior lawsuit he was in.
According to Oxfam Novib Dink ows the award particularly to the
exceptional efforts he makes for freedom of the press, freedom of
speech and the Armenian question.