{"id":1081290,"date":"2023-06-12T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=24554"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T14:32:05","slug":"winners-of-the-vaclav-havel-international-prize-for-creative-dissent-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/12\/winners-of-the-vaclav-havel-international-prize-for-creative-dissent-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the V\u00e1clav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Human Rights Foundation announced as recipients of the 2023 V\u00e1clav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent<\/a>: Nicaraguan political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina<\/strong>; Ugandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija<\/strong>; and the third prize to be shared by four Ukrainian artists: the late conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko<\/strong>; the \u201cArt Residency in Occupation<\/strong>\u201d project; the illustrator Mariia Loniuk<\/strong>; and the \u201cStand Up for Ukraine<\/strong>\u201d performance project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the face of oppression and stifling silence, this year\u2019s laureates have chosen to speak the unspoken, echoing V\u00e1clav Havel\u2019s creativity and courageous spirit,<\/em>\u201d said HRF Chief Executive Officer Thor Halvorssen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year\u2019s laureates will be recognized during a ceremony on Wednesday, June 14, at the 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum<\/a> (OFF) in Oslo, Norway. The Havel Prize ceremony will also be broadcast live at oslofreedomforum.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P<\/strong>edro X Molina<\/strong> is a Nicaraguan political cartoonist who was forced into exile on Christmas Day 2018 after Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega\u2019s political police killed a journalist, jailed two others, and ransacked the offices of El Confidencial \u2014 the digital newspaper that featured Molina\u2019s biting caricatures of Ortega and his tyranny. Molina published his first two cartoons in Barricada in 1995, later becoming a cartoonist for the digital outlet El Confidencial. In 2019, he received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, awarded by Columbia University. The same year he was recognized by Americas Quarterly as one of its Top 5 Latin American political humorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n