OSLO: Despite its champions being honoured with a Nobel Peace Prize, press freedom has a"sword of Damocles" hanging over it, this year's two laureates lamented on Thursday .
The 58-year-old journalist mentioned her compatriot and former colleague, Jess Malabanan, a reporter for the Manila Standard, who was shot in the head on Wednesday. "If we're going to be foreign agents because of the Nobel Peace Prize, we will not get upset, no," he told reporters when asked of the risk of being labelled as such by the Kremlin.
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