# International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes

International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes are individuals who have been recognized by the Vienna-based International Press Institute for "significant contributions to the maintenance of press freedom and freedom of expression" and "indomitable courage". The first 50 "heroes" were selected on the occasion of the organization's 50th anniversary in 2000, and awarded at its World Congress in Boston. As of 2021, 22 additional heroes have been added to the list, several of them posthumously.

## Recipients

| Year | Honorees | Country |
| 2000 | Aslam Ali | Pakistan |
| 2000 | Rudolf Augstein | Germany |
| 2000 | Omar Belhouchet | Algeria |
| 2000 | Kenneth Best | Liberia |
| 2000 | Hubert Beuve-Méry | France |
| 2000 | Jesús Blancornelas | Mexico |
| 2000 | Grémah Boukar Koura | Niger |
| 2000 | Jose Burgos Jr. | Philippines |
| 2000 | Guillermo Cano | Colombia |
| 2000 | Juan Pablo Cárdenas | Chile |
| 2000 | Pedro Joaquín Chamorro | Nicaragua |
| 2000 | Suk-Chae Choi [ko] | South Korea |
| 2000 | Julio De Mesquita Neto [pt] | Brazil |
| 2000 | Jiří Dienstbier | Czech Republic |
| 2000 | Harold Evans | United Kingdom |
| 2000 | Antonio Fontán | Spain |
| 2000 | Gao Yu | China |
| 2000 | Katharine Graham | United States |
| 2000 | Veronica Guerin | Ireland |
| 2000 | Shiro Hara | Japan |
| 2000 | Amira Hass | Israel |
| 2000 | Tara Singh Hayer | Canada |
| 2000 | Doan Viet Hoat | Vietnam |
| 2000 | Abdi İpekçi | Turkey |
| 2000 | Kemal Kurspahić | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2000 | Daoud Kuttab | Palestine |
| 2000 | Gwen Lister | Namibia |
| 2000 | Mochtar Lubis | Indonesia |
| 2000 | Kronid Lyubarsky | Russia |
| 2000 | Savea Sano Malifa | Samoa |
| 2000 | Veran Matić | Serbia |
| 2000 | Adam Michnik | Poland |
| 2000 | Fred M'membe | Zambia |
| 2000 | Indro Montanelli | Italy |
| 2000 | Nizar Nayyouf | Syria |
| 2000 | Freedom Neruda | Ivory Coast |
| 2000 | Pius Njawé | Cameroon |
| 2000 | Germán Ornes | Dominican Republic |
| 2000 | Percy Qoboza | South Africa |
| 2000 | Raúl Rivero | Cuba |
| 2000 | Nuno Rocha | Portugal |
| 2000 | Faraj Sarkohi | Iran |
| 2000 | Arun Shourie | India |
| 2000 | André Sibomana | Rwanda |
| 2000 | U Thaung | Myanmar |
| 2000 | Jacobo Timerman | Argentina |
| 2000 | Ricardo Uceda | Peru |
| 2000 | Eleni Vlahou | Greece |
| 2000 | C.E.L. Wickremesinghe | Sri Lanka |
| 2000 | José Rubén Zamora | Guatemala |
| 2006 | Anna Politkovskaya | Russia |
| 2007 | Hrant Dink | Turkey |
| 2010 | Lydia Cacho Ribeiro | Mexico |
| 2010 | May Chidiac | Lebanon |
| 2010 | Akbar Ganji | Iran |
| 2010 | Yoani Sánchez | Cuba |
| 2010 | Pap Saine | The Gambia |
| 2010 | Nedim Şener | Turkey |
| 2010 | Lasantha Wickrematunge | Sri Lanka |
| 2010 | Laurence Gandar | South Africa |
| 2011 | Raymond Louw | South Africa |
| 2011 | Daniel Pearl | United States |
| 2012 | David Rohde | United States |
| 2013 | Marie Colvin | United States |
| 2013 | Mika Yamamoto | Japan |
| 2014 | Mashallah Shamsolvaezin | Iran |
| 2015 | Mazen Darwish | Syria |
| 2016 | Ahmad Zeidabadi | Iran |
| 2017 | Eskinder Nega | Ethiopia |
| 2019 | Cyril Almeida | Pakistan |
| 2021 | Yuliya Slutskaya [be] | Belarus |