Mahmoud Abu Zeid has won the 2018 UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Pres Freedon Prize. He hails from which country?

Q. Mahmoud Abu Zeid has won the 2018 UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Pres Freedom Prize. He hails from which country?

1. Israel
2. Iraq
3. Iran
4. Egypt
5. None of the above / More than one of the above

Answer: Egypt

UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, created in 1997, honors a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defense and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.

The prize, worth US$45,000, is awarded each year on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May.

The prize is named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, the editor of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador, who was murdered in Bogotá on 17 December 1986. Cano was a vocal critic of the country's powerful drug barons.

Each year, an independent jury of 14 news professionals selected by the UNESCO Director-General selects a winner from the many nominations submitted by non-governmental organizations working in the field of press freedom, and by UNESCO Member States.

Mahmoud Abu Zeid

Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan (born ca. 1987), an Egyptian photojournalist, was arrested for taking photos at the Rabaa massacre August 14, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt and imprisoned during the post-coup unrest by the Egyptian government since 2013, where he faces the death penalty.
Shawkan honored with the following awards:

• 2016, John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. A statement from the National Press Club said, "Shawkan's case exemplifies the draconian way Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the press. Egypt is one of the world’s top jailers of news professionals, and the situation there is not improving."
• 2016, International Press Freedom Award, from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
• 2018, International Press Freedom Award, from the Committee to Protect Journalists.