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The Sofia Echo cartoonist Christo Komarnitski wins SEEMO award

Tue, Dec 07 2010 17:24 CET

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The Sofia Echo cartoonist Christo Komarnitski wins SEEMO award

Photo: Christo Komarnitski

The Sofia Echo cartoonist Christo Komarnitski wins SEEMO award

Photo: Christo Komarnitski

The Sofia Echo cartoonist Christo Komarnitski wins SEEMO award

Photo: Christo Komarnitski

Bulgarian cartoonist Christo Komarnitski, a political cartoonist for The Sofia Echo, as well as Bulgarian-language daily Sega and weekly Sturshel, won the Human Rights Award 2010 from the South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO).

"Very often a human rights defender can say much more with a single picture or cartoon than with tons of words. Thank goodness, we are not facing wars because of cartoons, but right now some cartoons are more precious and more worthy than many diplomatic interventions," SEEMO board member Milena Dimitrova said in a statement.

Komarnitski (46) has won several international awards for his work, including a third prize in 2004 and a citation for excellence in the 2007 UN correspondents association Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award.

He is the first Bulgarian to win SEEMO's prize, awarded since 2002. Komarnitski will receive his award in Sofia on December 10.

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