WOMEN JOURNALISTS HONORED FOR RISKING THEIR LIVES
October 16, 2008
October 16, 2008
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of State's International Information Programs issued the following press release:
For Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad, advocacy for democracy and women's rights has made death threats a way of life.
In June 2007 her friend and colleague Zakia Zaki was murdered; at the funeral Nekzad received a phone call warning she would also be killed -- so gruesomely that her body would be unrecognizable. Nekzad refused to be . . .
For Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad, advocacy for democracy and women's rights has made death threats a way of life.
In June 2007 her friend and colleague Zakia Zaki was murdered; at the funeral Nekzad received a phone call warning she would also be killed -- so gruesomely that her body would be unrecognizable. Nekzad refused to be . . .