1 April 2006

LEBANESE JOURNALIST NAMED WORLD PRESS FREEDOM PRIZE-WINNER


May Chidiac, the Lebanese journalist who lost a hand and a leg when her car was bombed last September, has been named the winner of the 2006 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

Chidiac is a popular television presenter whose news bulletins and Sunday programmes - Naharkoum Saïd and Bonjour - on LBC (Lebanese Broadcasting Corp.) are among the most widely watched in Lebanon.

On 25 September 2005, she was seriously wounded when a bomb attached to the bottom of her car detonated in Beirut. Two other Lebanese journalists - Samir Kassir and Gebran Tueni - were killed in similar attacks last year.

Chidiac will be awarded the prize on 3 May in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where UNESCO will be holding its World Press Freedom Day celebrations. The prize is worth US$25,000, and is supported by the Guillermo Cano Foundation, UNESCO, and James and David Ottaway.

For more information, visit: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/wpfd/2006



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