Presented By: Wallenberg Lecture
The 2015 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture: Masha Gessen
Author, Journalist and Activist Masha Gessen speaks up for human rights in Russia.
The 2015 Wallenberg Medal is being awarded to Masha Gessen, a Russian and American journalist, author and activist who has written extensively about politics, culture and the deteriorating human rights conditions in her homeland. She has been repeatedly threatened for her outspoken activism on behalf of LGBTQ rights and her reporting and writing about the repression of rights of individuals and minorities in Russia. She has written books on Vladimir Putin and the corruption of his regime, Pussy Riot, and the Tsarnaev brothers. Through her persistent activism, Masha Gessen has shown how courage is the highest expression of civic spirit.
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