2ND EDITION OF HRANT DINK JOURNALISTIC AWARD FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION DUE IN ROME
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.01.2009 18:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On January 23, 2009, the prestigious Ceremony Hall
of the Armenian Papal College of Rome, will host the second edition
of Hrant Dink Journalistic Award for the Freedom of Information
instituted by the Council for the Armenian Community of Rome in
honor of the Armenian-Turkish journalist, Agos bilingual newspaper
editor who was savagely assassinated in Turkey on January 19, 2007,
the Armenian community of Rome told PanARMENIAN.Net.
This award is aimed at showing the value of the work of all the
journalists who do not wave over talking about "thorny" issues as the
Armenian genocide. Therefore, this is a prize both to information
freedom and, at the same time, to courage and honesty, the courage
that led some valiant men, as Hrant Dink, (but also as the Nobel Prize
winner Pamuk and as many other writers, journalists and academics)
not to be silent.
During the first awarding ceremony, held on January19, 2008, on the
occasion of the first anniversary of Dink’s murder, in collaboration
with the association "Reporter Without Borders", journalists Roberto
Olla of the TG1 (TV news), Flavia Amabile and Marco Tosatti of La
Stampa newspaper were given prizes.
The award of the second edition will be given to the journalists
Patrizia Alberici of Radio RAI (public Italian Radio Television)
and to Caterina Maniaci of Libero (Newspaper).
On the same occasion, the volume titled "The blood of the lambs –
reportage among the Christians persecuted in Middle East", published
by Guerini, will be also introduced in the presence of the author
Rodolfo Casadei.
Casadei is a special correspondent of the Tempi weekly magazine. He
personally went to see and listen to the Christians who are in trouble
and are subjected to any form of oppression in Turkey, Jordan, Syria,
Lebanon and, most of all, in Iraq…. He gives a journalistically
unexceptionable documentation to us. He was one of the last western
reporters to interview Hrant Dink before his vile murder. The first
chapter of the book just witnesses this encounter.
The encounter is sponsored by the Armenian Embassy in Italy and by
the Armenian Papal College, in collaboration with Guerini Publisher.