Freedom Neruda
Freedom Neruda is an Ivorian journalist. In 1996, he was imprisoned for seditious libel after writing a satirical article about Ivorian President Henri Konan Bédié. The following year, he won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, and in 2000, he was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years. Freedom Neruda, Ivorian journalist
15 August 1956
Born on the same birth date (15 August 1956): Lorraine Desmarais • Robert Syms
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