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PHRMG is proud to announce the
following award:
Informazione Senza Frontiere, an
Italian organization for the promotion and protection of
worldwide freedom for the press, has granted the
international award titled "Information Without Boundaries -
Town of Siena" 2002 for freedom of press in the world to
Bassem Eid, Palestinian journalist and director of the
Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. This award was
presented to Bassem Eid in Siena, Italy on December 6,
2002. See
www.italian.it/isf/home537.htm for the original
announcement, in Italian.
Previously, Bassem Eid worked as the
senior fieldworker for the Israeli human rights organization
B'tselem for seven years. During this time, Mr. Eid earned
international recognition for his documentation and
publication of a wide range of human rights issues. Mr. Eid
is the co-author of the B’tselem report on the Palestinian
Preventive Security Service, "Neither Law nor Justice,"
and was involved in research for nearly every B’tselem
publication from 1989 to 1996. In appreciation for his work
for B'tselem and as a journalist, Mr. Eid was awarded the
1992 Emil Grunsweig Human Rights Award by the
Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). He was also
awarded the 1996 McGill / InterAmicus Robert S. Litvak
Memorial Human Rights Award for his outspoken human
rights advocacy. In 1999, the Gleitsman Foundation's Board
of Judges presented Mr. Eid with the International
Activist Award, in recognition of "his long effort to
bring peace to the Middle East."
In 2001, this award was received by
Gideon Levy, writer for the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz,
and Irish journalist Martin O'Hagan writer for the Sunday
World of Dublin.
Mr. Eid’s article titled “Intifada
Loses Its Way” was praised by the Informazione Senza
Frontiere as they granted him this award. This article and
other writings by Bassem Eid are accessible at
www.phrmg.org/articles.
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