United Nations - Five journalists who risked their lives to report the news in Belarus, Peru, Niger, Indonesia and Eritrea yesterday received international press freedom awards.
But three of them will not be at the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ) gala dinner: Ruth Simon has been in jail in Eritrea for the past two years; Pavel Sheremet was forbidden to travel by the Belarus government and Goenawan Mohamad is covering upheavals in Indonesia.
The other two winners are Gremah Boucar, founder of Niger's Radio Anfani, and Gustavo Gorriti, one of Latin America's best-known journalists.
