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Beirut (dpa) - The Director General of the International Press Federation Timothy Balding announced Friday in Beirut the establishment of the Martyr Jubran Tueini Prize for freedom of the press.
The prize is named a Lebanese journalist and member of parliament who was killed in a car bomb attack December 12, 2005.
"The aim of this prize is to support the free and independent Arab press... especially that we know that many of the Arab newspapers are not free," Balding said during a ceremony held at the Lebanese daily newspaper An-Nahar, which the Tueini family owns.
Balding said the prize amounts to ten thousand euros and will be given to "support the journalists, reporters and owners of newspapers."
The prize will be handed out during an official ceremony to be held in Beirut between September and October.
In 2005, Lebanon was hit by fifteen blasts mainly targeting anti- Syrian political figures and journalists. Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in one of the blasts along with twenty other people.
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