Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi won the 2011 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. He is also the winner of World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award for 2010. Announcing the UNESCO decision, jury president Diana Senghor said: “ The final choice of Ahmad Zeidabadi pays a tribute to his exceptional courage, resistance and commitment to freedom of expression, democracy, human rights, tolerance, and humanity. Beyond him, also the Prize will award the numerous Iranian journalists who are currently jailed.” Zeidabadi is currently serving a six-year jail sentence following Iran’s presidential election in 2009.
In honour of our political prisoners, I would like to write the names of these courageous people here, with some information about each of them and a link to any possible online petition requesting their release. I have started the list, see Prisoners of Iran's page. It will be a long list and I need your help to make the list more complete.
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