Assigned to journalists Maria Ressa e Dmitry Muratov il Nobel Peace Prize 2021 for "their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia".
The Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, stressed that freedom of expression is “prerequisite for democracy” and that the two winners represent “all journalists who fight for this ideal in a world where democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions".
Maria Ressa, is a Filipino journalist naturalized American, among the most critical voices on the actions of President Rodrigo Duterte: she denounces abuses of power, recourse to violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country, the Philippines. In 2012 she co-founded Rappler, a digital media company for investigative journalism.
Dmitry Muratov, a Russian journalist, has been defending freedom of speech in Russia for decades under increasingly difficult conditions. In 1993 he was one of the founders of the independent daily newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the most independent newspaper in Russia today, with a fundamentally critical position towards the authorities.
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