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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:
Caisii Mao
Photographer, India - Attacked
The Trust helped Casil back to work when he was attacked whilst covering a demonstration in North West India.
Nguyen Hoang Vi
Journalist and Blogger, Vietnam - Attacked
Vi has suffered violence and harassment from the police after reporting on scandals involving high-level government officials.
Barat Ali Batoor
Photojournalist, Afghanistan - Forced to Flee
Barat was forced to flee Afghanistan after his photo story "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan" was published internationally.
Jayanta Kumar Das
Freelance journalist and cameraman. Attacked, India.
Jayanta Kumar Das, from Assam, in North East India, was attacked whilst covering ethnic violence in September 2012. He was severely beaten by a group of protesters who also set fire to his motor bike, smashed his phone and stole his...
Mikhail Beketov
Russian freelance journalist - Attacked
Mikhail Beketov died of heart failure on Monday 8 April 2013, five years after suffering a horrendous attack that left him unable to speak or walk. He was 55 years old. Mikhail Beketov had worked as a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Chechnya...
William Gomes
Freelance print and online journalist - in exile
William freelanced for the Sri Lanka Guardian and the Asian Human Rights Commission, reporting mainly on crimes committed by security agencies in Bangladesh. In May 2011 he was detained, interrogated and tortured by the police’s anti-crime and...
Manika Jha
Freelance Journalist - Attacked
24 year old Manika is an award-winning freelance print and radio journalist. She is also one of the few female journalists working in Nepal. A passionate reporter of human rights issues, she provides is a rare voice for women in a male dominated...
Nizar Sarieldin
Freelance fixer and print journalist - In Crisis, Libya
During the Libyan uprising in 2011, Nizar worked as a fixer for journalists from various international media, including Time Magazine, Le Monde, Christian Science Monitor, AFP and the Japanese press. He also reported from the Misrata frontline for...
Edith Bouvier
Freelance journalist - Injured, Syria
Edith, a French freelancer with considerable experience working in hostile environments, was one of a group of foreign journalists staying in an unofficial press centre inside the Syrian city of Homs when it was hit by government shelling in February...
Teimuraz Kighuradze
Freelance broadcast journalist - Injured
In August 2008, Teimuraz Kighuradze, a respected conflict reporter, was one of the first journalists to enter Tskhinvali in South Ossetia and reach scenes of fighting on the day war broke out between Russia and Georgia. While covering the clashes...
