IPI World Congress honours Ethiopian, Afghan journalists
(World News Austria)

`Eskinder Nega`s courage made him a familiar name, a symbol of resistance for many Ethiopians,` exiled Ethiopian journalist and human rights activist Mesfin Negash told attendees of the International Press Institute (IPI)`s 2017 World Congress in Hamburg on Thursday as he accepted IPI`s 2017 World Press Freedom Hero award on behalf of Nega, who remains in prison in Ethiopia. `He inspired many young journalists and bloggers.` Negash, program director of the Stockholm-based human rights organisation Civil Rights Defenders, was speaking to an audience of approximately 300 leading journalists and others who gathered on the World Congress`s first day to honour IPI`s 69th World Press Freedom Hero...