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NEW YORK – Four newswomen from Belarus, Cameroon, Iran and Israel who have kept working in the face of intimidation, threats and attacks were honored Tuesday by an international media group.
Agnes Taile of Cameroon, who was beaten and left for dead for her work at a radio station; Iryna Khalip, a reporter and editor in the Minsk, Belarus, bureau of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta; and Jila Baniyaghoob, editor-in-chief of the Web site Kanoon Zanan Irani, received the 2009 Courage in Journalism awards from the International Women's Media Foundation.
The group also handed its Lifetime Achievement Award to Amira Hass, 53, a journalist with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, who for 20 years has reported Palestinian and Israeli government policies from inside Palestinian territory. She has written critically about both Israel and the Palestinians.
