HRANT DINK AWARDED OXFAM NOVIB PEN AWARD

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 16, ARMENPRESS:The Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink won the Oxfam Novib PEN Award, Oxfam Novib announced earlier this week. Hrant Dink, chief editor of Agos bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly published in Istanbul, will be granted the award this Saturday by Mayer of The Hague Wim Deetman at the occasion of the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague. The Award includes an amount of money of 2500 euro. The Awards have the intention of encouraging writers who are being persecuted. Dink recently was given a suspended prison sentence in Turkey of half a year, because of writing about the Armenian Genocide. He also has to face the judge on a critical article he wrote about a prior lawsuit he was in.