Nizar Nayyouf is a Syrian journalist, human rights activist, and dissident. He was one of the founding members of the Committee for the Defence of Democratic Freedom, a banned political organization in Syria, as well as editor-in-chief of صوت الديمقراطيِّة Sawt al-Democratiyya.
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Kyaw Soe OoAlso won UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
Ma ThidaAlso won PEN Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
Daoud KuttabAlso won International Press Institute World Press Freedom HeroesAbout this person
Nizar Nayyouf is a Syrian journalist, human rights activist, and dissident. He was one of the founding members of the Committee for the Defence of Democratic Freedom, a banned political organization in Syria, as well as editor-in-chief of صوت الديمقراطيِّة Sawt al-Democratiyya. He has criticized the Syrian government for human rights abuses, for which he was arrested and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in 1991, most of which he spent in Mezzeh prison outside Damascus.
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