ZARAGOZA, SPAIN - Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima, who was abducted, tortured and sexually assaulted on her way to interview an infamous paramilitary warlord in Bogota in 2000 has been awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom award by the World Association of News Publishers on Wednesday .
For years she kept her harrowing experiences to herself but in 2009, she broke her silence when she launched the campaign No Es Hora De Callar to defend women's rights and denounce the habitual and systematic impunity in cases of sexual violence within Colombia's internal war. "Working for press freedom is one of the greatest commitments that a media outlet and a journalist can have and being awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom is also recognition of the tireless fight against impunity that dozens of journalists face around the world," she added.
In 2012, her efforts were acknowledged by Colombia's Public Prosecutor's Office when it was announced that her torture and sexual assault constituted a crime against humanity. Ms Bedoya Lima has also received the 2020 Unerco/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. And in August 2019, she won the Press Freedom Grand Prix from the Inter-American Press Association .
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