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Mohammad Seddiq Kaboudvand
HRD, President
Human Rights Organisation of Kurdistan
Press Gazette British Press Award
2009
International Journalist of the Year
HRW Hellman-Hammett Grant
2009
Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand Awarded Hellman/Hammett Grant
Mohammad Seddiq Kaboudvand is founder and President of Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan and former editor of the weekly Payam-e Mardom-e Kurdistan. He is serving a 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence since 1 July 2007 (10 years for founding and administering the Human Rights Organisation of Kurdistan and six months for his work as a journalist).