Honorees from left to right, Andrew Mwenda, managing editor of The Independent in Uganda, Farida Nekzad, Pajhwok Afghanistan News executive, Beatrice Mtetwa, media lawyer from Zimbabwe, and Danish Karokhel, Pajhwok Afghanistan News executive, are pictured together before being honored at the 18th Annual International Press freedom Awards Dinner, which benefits the Committee to Protect Journalists, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008. Honorees unable to attend were Bilal Hussein, Associated Press photographer from Iraq, and Hector Maseda Gutierrez, an imprisoned reporter in Cuba. AP Photo logo AP Photo 12 months ago

Honorees from left to right, Andrew Mwenda, managing editor of The Independent in Uganda, Farida Nekzad, Pajhwok Afghanistan News executive, Beatrice Mtetwa, media lawyer from Zimbabwe, and Danish Karokhel, Pajhwok Afghanistan News executive, are pictured together before being honored at the 18th Annual International Press freedom Awards Dinner, which benefits the Committee to Protect Journalists, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008. Honorees unable to attend were Bilal Hussein, Associated Press photographer from Iraq, and Hector Maseda Gutierrez, an imprisoned reporter in Cuba.

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