NUREMBERG, Oct 6: An Indian journalist and a Pakistani rights activist have both won the Nuremberg international human rights prize for 2003, the jury announced on Sunday.
The jury awarded the prize to Indian woman journalist Teesta Setalvad and Pakistan’s Ibn Abdur Rehman for their “exemplary fight” for peace and human rights despite personal risk.
The 15,000-euro ($14,700) prize will be presented to the pair in the German city next September.
Setalvad, 40, co-edits a magazine and has spoken out against the ill treatment of women and minority groups. Ibn Abdur Rehman, 72, has been director of an independent Pakistani human rights commission since 1990 and has worked for peace in the troubled Indian-held Kashmir.—AFP
