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Recent Beneficiaries
In 2012 our Freelance Assistance Programme distributed 127 grants - more than ever before - to freelancers and their families in crisis.
Below are some of those we have recently supported:
Mohammed Alahmad al-Ali
Syrian Journalist - In Exile
“Before the revolution, the situation for journalists was so hard, but now it’s worse. If you cover stories you don’t face the threat of being arrested, you’re facing death. You expect a bullet from a sniper or some shelling...
Ashur and Ahmed
Syrian Journalists - In Exile
Freelancers Ashur and Ahmed** were among a handful of journalists bringing reports out of Daraa in Syria when the first protests against Bashar al Assad's regime began in March 2011. Together with a colleague, they had built up a network of sources...
Guy Martin
British Photographer - Seriously Injured in Libya
Guy Martin, an award-winning young photographer from Cornwall, England, was seriously injured in the Misurata mortar attack that killed Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in April 2011. The group had been accompanying rebel fighters into the city...
Family of Anton Hammerl
Photojournalist - UK. Killed in Libya
Anton Hammerl was shot and killed by pro-Gadaffi forces in Libya on 5 April 2011. A former chief photographer for Johannesburg’s Saturday Star, Hammerl had been living in London with his wife Penny and their two young children when he travelled...
Hasan Sarbakhshian
Iranian Photojournalist & Filmmaker - In Exile
Hasan is a celebrated photojournalist in Iran. His workhas been published in the New York Times, Guardian,Newsweek, Washington Post, Time and otherinternational publications, and he has worked regularly for the Associated Press. In 2009, while...
Chandler Vandergrift
Photographer, Filmmaker & Journalist, Bangkok - Seriously Injured
Chandler Vandergrift, a Canadian freelancer living in Bangkok, was seriously injured while covering the Red Shirt protests in May 2010. Hit by shrapnel from an M79 grenade, he was left unconscious, with multiple injuries to his body and...
Nasrullah Afridi
TV and Print Journalist, Pakistan - Murdered
Nasrullah Afridi was a highly respected journalist fromBara in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Local presidentof the Tribal Union of Journalists, he had been targeted by militant groups for years and in 2006 he and his family were forced to leave Bara...
Natalia Radzina
Web and Print Journalist, Belarus - In Exile
Following the re-election of President Lukashenko in December 2010 Belarus's capital Minsk was engulfed in a wave of protests by members and supporters of the opposition. The authorities responded with a heavy-handed crackdown; numerous journalists...
Ehsan Maleki
Photojournalist, Iran - In Exile
In 2009 and 2010, in the aftermath of its disputed elections, Iran became the leading jailer of journalists in the world (source: CPJ). Journalists and bloggers, charged with “mutiny” and “disruption of public order,” faced...
