By IANS,
Dhaka : Three bloggers from Bangladesh have won prizes in a global blog writing contest, German news broadcaster Deutsche Welle has announced.
Internet users elected Bangladesh’s Ami Rahman Pial’s blog in the Best Social Activism category and Arif Jebtik’s blog in the Best Bengali Blog category of the seventh annual Deutsche Welle Blog Award.
The awards constituted by Deutsche Welle in six multilingual categories will be handed over at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn June 20, bdnews24 reported.
Internet users around the world suggested some 2,100 sites in 11 languages for the contest this year, but the jury trimmed the list down to 187 finalists.
More than 90,000 ballots were cast in an online vote.
Another Bangladeshi blogger, Sabrina Sultana, secured the second position in the Best Blog category.
The blog “A Tunisian Girl” won the first prize for blogging about repression and censorship in her country.
Lina Ben Mhenni, a 27-year-old assistant professor at the University of Tunis, started writing since 2007, long before an uprising ousted president Ben Ali.
Facebook group “We are Khaled Said” took the award for Best Social Activism Campaign while Bahrain website “Migrant Rights in the Middle East” – www.migrant-rights.org – won the Special Topic Human Rights Award.