Georgian journalist Tamar Kintsurashvili wins Freedom of Speech Award | DW News

Ana Maria Rus

Every year since 2015 - Deutsche Welle has awarded a Freedom of Speech Award to a person or initiative that has made an outstanding contribution to promoting press freedom and human rights. This year's winner is Tamar Kintsurashvili - a journalist from Georgia who runs an NGO called Media Development Foundation - in the capital Tblisi which advocates for human rights and freedoms. There she devotes her time to running workshops on recognizing fake news and combating hate speech. But her work