The ceremony for presenting the Hrant Dink Award to people fighting for human rights was held for the tenth year, in Istanbul, Turkey.

From Turkey, Murat Çelikkan, who fights for human rights since the 1970s and who has been imprisoned several times for this fight, received this year’s award, Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul reported.

And from abroad, Radhya Al-Mutawakelm, Chairperson of MWATANA Organization for Human Rights of Yemen, became this year’s Hrant Dink Award winner.

World-renowned American Armenian musician Serj Tankian was among the jury members of this award.

Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos, was gunned down on January 19, 2007, outside the then office of this newspaper.

In 2011, the perpetrator, Ogün Samast, was sentenced by a juvenile court to 22 years and ten months for the murder.

After long court proceedings and appeals, however, a new probe was ultimately launched into this murder case, and regarding numerous former and serving senior Turkish officials’ complicity in this assassination.