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Awards Honor Free Expression Leaders in Angola, Kenya & Morocco

Three of the five winners of 2015 Freedom of Expression Awards are from Africa. They include: Angolan investigative reporter Rafael Marques de Morais, who has faced repeated prosecution for exposing government and industry corruption, faces trial on 23 March for defamation; Amran Abdundi, who leads a group helping women in north-eastern Kenya along the dangerous border with Somalia; and Mouad "El Haqed" Belghouat, the Moroccan rapper and human rights activist whose music highlights widespread poverty and endemic government corruption in Morocco who has been imprisoned three times in recent years.

Index on Censorship

2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards.

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Journalist and campaigner Mariane Pearl, journalism award recipient Rafael Marques de Morais, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and journalism award recipient Safa Al Ahmad.

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Doughty Street barrister Keir Starmer, campaigning award recipient Amran Abdundi and Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg.

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Arts category winner Mouad “El Haqed” Belghouat, novelist Elif Shafak and actor Stella Odunlami.

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