September 8, 2010
Kurt Westergaard Wins Freedom Award
Kurt Westergaard, the best-known of the Danish cartoonists who contributed caricatures of Muhammed to the publication
Jyllands-Posten in 2005, setting off worldwide protests and lingering political turmoil,
will be given the M100 Sanssouci Media Award in Potsdam later today for both his symbolic and real-world defense of free speech.
The theme of tonight's M100 dinner is "Freedome Of The Press In Europe," and the keynote speaker will be German chancellor Angela Merkel. The linked-to article notes that the award stands in harsh contrast to a decision by German TV station ZDF earlier this year where they canceled an interview with Westergaard. They claimed security reasons.
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