63rd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2017
Mahmoud Abu Zeid has won the 2018 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. Which country is he from?
aIsrael
bIraq
cIran
dEgypt✓ Correct
eNone of the above/More than one of the above
Explanation
The ‘UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, 2018’ was awarded to the imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid. On 2 May 2022, the Belarusian Association of Journalists was honoured with the prestigious UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for the year 2022. In 2024, this award was given to Palestinian journalists covering Gaza in the Israel–Hamas conflict. In 2025, this award was given to Nicaragua’s newspaper La Prensa.
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