Former US president Barack Obama called the award for Ressa and Muratov 'a tribute to their extraordinary courage and the enduring value of fact-based journalism and freedom of expression, which is under threat in far too many places today.' NobelPrize
and Muratov, the Nobel Prize committee said, were awarded “for their courageous fight for freedom of expression” in the Philippines and Russia and for their “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace."
On Friday night, October 8, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres congratulated Ressa and Muratov as he underscored that this year’s recognition is a reminder that “no society can be free without journalists who can investigate wrongdoing and speak truth to power.
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