I’m sure the chatter on the wires and the blogs is about Hillary Mantel winning the Booker Prize for ‘Wolf Hall’.

However, there’s another prize being awarded tonight. It’s the Anna Politkovskya Award, and goes to a woman human rights defender. Previous winners include the Afghani MP Malalai Joya, and Natalia Estimirova, who was herself killed earlier this year.

This year’s winner has just been announced. It is the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality, which petitions to end discrimmination against women in Iran.

Activist Leila Alikarami has collected the award on behalf of the campaign. I’m just hearing about their activities now, but they’re clearly a worthy winner. A reminder, if we needed one, of the diversity of opinion and politics in Iran.

The Anna Politkovskaya award is run by the RAW in WARcampaign.

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