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September 22, 2016

Syrian White Helmets & Others Win 2016 Right Livelihood Awards
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And this year's Right Livelihood Awards, known as the Alternative Nobel
Prize, have been announced in Stockholm, Sweden. This year's winners are
the volunteer rescue group the Syria Civil Defense, known as the White
Helmets; Egyptian feminist Mozn Hassan; Russian human rights activist
Svetlana Gannushkina; and Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, whose
journalists have faced arrest, imprisonment and assassination attempts
amid Turkey's increasing crackdown against the press.


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