Kokkvold, a columnist for Aftenposten, had also worked as Secretary-General of the Norwegian Press Association, a position he held during the Danish cartoon crisis of 2006, when he had been subjected to death threats.
The jury citation praised Solberg for her active devotion to “democratic values such as freedom of speech and fundamental human rights” and for having regularly “exposed herself to danger” in her work as a journalist.
Khan, who lives in England, is a human-rights activist, singer, record producers, and director of the films Jihad and Banaz: A Love Story.
Despite their highly different backgrounds and areas of expertise, each, in their way, he said, had “contributed to important debates and emerged as courageous defenders of fundamental democratic values.
She said that it was “a great honor to be asked to represent the military veterans.” In 1994, Vindheim was a member of the medical corps that evacuated 287 patients from a bombed-out hospital in Gorazde, Bosnia.
[5] The prize for 2018 was awarded to Elizabeth Hoff, a nurse and midwife at Ullevål Hospital in Oslo who went on to become an international aid worker, employed by the Red Cross and UN and, most recently, the World Health Organization.