2014

- Mikhail Zygar Nga[1]- Ferial Haffajee Nam Phi[1]- Siamak Ghaderi Iran[1]- Aung Zaw Myanmar[1]

2013

-Janet Hinostroza Ecuador[2]-Bassem Youssef Ai Cập[2]- Nedim Şener Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ[2]-Nguyễn Văn Hải Việt Nam[2]

2012

-Mauri König Brasil[3]-Dhondup Wangchen Trung Quốc[3]-Azimjon Askarov Kyrgyzstan[3]-Mae Azango Liberia[3]

2011

-Mansoor Al-Jamri (Bahrain)-Natalya Radina (Belarus)-Javier Valdez Cárdenas (Mexico)-Umar Cheema (Pakistan)

2010

-Mohammad Davari (Iran)-Nadira Isayeva (Nga)-Dawit Kebede (Ethiopia)-Laureano Márquez (Venezuela)

2009

-Mustafa Haji Abdinur (Somalia)-Naziha Réjiba (Tunisia)-Eynulla Fatullayev (Azerbaijan)-J. S. Tissainayagam (Sri Lanka)

2008

-Bilal Hussein (Iraq)-Danish Karokhel & Farida Nekzad (Afghanistan)-Andrew Mwenda (Uganda)-Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez (Cuba)

2007

-Mazhar Abbas (Pakistan)-Dmitry Muratov (Nga)-Adela Navarro Bello (Mexico)-Gao Qinrong (Trung quốc)

2006

- Jesús Abad Colorado (Colombia)- Jamal Amer (Yemen)- Madi Ceesay (Gambia)- Atwar Bahjat (Iraq) (truy tặng)

2005

- Galima Bukharbaeva (Uzbekistan)- Beatrice Mtetwa (Zimbabwe)- Lúcio Flávio Pinto (Brasil)- Shi Tao (Trung quốc)

2004

- Svetlana Kalinkina (Belarus)- Aung Pwint & Thaung Tun (Nyein Thit) (Myanmar)- Alexis Sinduhije (Burundi)- Paul Klebnikov (Hoa Kỳ) (truy tặng)

2003

- Abdul Samay Hamed (Afghanistan)- Aboubakr Jamai (Maroc)- Musa Muradov (Nga)- Manuel Vázquez Portal (Cuba)

2002

- Ignacio Gómez (Colombia)- Tipu Sultan (Bangladesh)- Irina Petrushova (Kazakhstan)- Fesshaye Yohannes (Eritrea)

2001

- Jiang Weiping (Trung quốc)- Geoffrey Nyarota (Zimbabwe)- Horacio Verbitsky (Argentina)- Mazen Dana (Palestine)

2000

- Željko Kopanja (Bosna và Hercegovina)- Modeste Mutinga (Cộng hòa Dân chủ Congo)- Steven Gan (Malaysia)- Mashallah Shamsolvaezin (Iran)

1999

- Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández (Cuba)- Baton Haxhiu (Kosovo)- Jugnu Mohsin & Najam Sethi (Pakistan)- María Cristina Caballero (Colombia)

1998

- Grémah Boucar (Niger)- Gustavo Gorriti (Peru)- Goenawan Mohamad (Indonesia)- Pavel Sheremet (Belarus)- Ruth Simon (Eritrea)

1997

- Chris Anyanwu (Nigeria)- Ying Chan & Shieh Chung-liang (Hồng Kông)- Freedom Neruda (Bờ Biển Ngà)- Viktor Ivancic (Croatia)- Yelena Masyuk (Nga)

1996

- Yusuf Jameel (Ấn Độ)- Jesús Blancornelas (Mexico)- Daoud Kuttab (Palestine)- Oscak Isik Yurtçu, Özgür Gündem (Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ)

1995

- Yevgeny Kiselyov (Nga)- José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, Siglo Veintiuno (Guatemala)- Fred M’membe (Zambia)- Ahmad Taufik (Indonesia)- Veronica Guerin (Ireland)

1994

- Iqbal Athas (Sri Lanka)- Aziz Nesin (Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ)- Yndamiro Restano (Cuba)- Daisy Li Yuet-Wah (Hồng Kông)- Navidi Vakhsh (Tajikistan) (truy tặng)

1993

- Omar Belhouchet (Algerie)- Đoàn Viết Hoạt (Việt Nam)- Nosa Igiebor (Nigeria)- Veran Matic (Serbia)- Ricardo Uceda (Peru)

1992

- David Kaplan (Hoa Kỳ)- Muhammad Al-Saqr (Kuwait)- Sony Esteus (Haiti)- Gwendolyn Lister (Namibia)- Thepchai Yong (Thái Lan)

1991

- Pius Njawé (Cameroon)- Wang Juntao Lưu trữ 2007-07-01 tại Wayback Machine & Chen Ziming (Trung quốc)- Bill Foley & Cary Vaughan (Hoa Kỳ)- Tatyana Mitkova (Liên Xô cũ)- Byron Barrera (Guatemala)