Akbar Ganji is the winner of Rights & Democracy’s 2007 John Humphrey Freedom Award.
Rights & Democracy presents the John Humphrey Freedom Award each year to an organization or individual from any country or region of the world, including Canada, for exceptional achievement in the promotion of human rights and democratic development. Named in honour of John Peters Humphrey, the McGill University law professor who prepared the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the award includes a speaking tour of Canadian cities to help increase awareness of the recipient’s human rights work.
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