Awards and Honors
- Hellman-Hammett Grant (1990, 1996)
- China Foundation on Democracy Education for Outstanding Democratic Activist(2003)
- Fondation de France Prize for defender of press freedom (2004)
- Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards (2004, 2005, 2006)
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- Excellent Award (2004) for an article Corrupted News is not News, published on Open Magazine, January 2004 issue
- Grand Prize (2005) for an article Paradise of the Powerful, Hell of the Vulnerable on Open Magazine, September 2004 issue
- Excellent Award (2006) for The Causes and Ending of Shanwei Bloodshed on Open Magazine, January 2006
- Asia-Pacific Human Rights Foundation (Australia) Courage of Conscience Award (2007)
- People In Need (Czech) Homo Homini Award (2009)
- PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award (2009)
- Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (USA) Free Spirit Award (2009)
- German PEN Hermann Kesten Medal (2010)
- Nobel Peace Prize (2010)
- Honorary member of German, American, Portuguese, Czech and Sydney PEN Centers, and Honorary President of Independent Chinese PEN Centre.
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