AP Wins Pulitzer for Stories on Enslaved Fishermen in Asia

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19 April 2016 10:51 WIB

In this Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014 photo, Thai and Burmese fishing boat workers sit behind bars inside a cell at the compound of a fishing company in Benjina, Indonesia. The Associated Press has won the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, April 18, 2016, for public service for articles documenting the use of slave labor in the commercial seafood industry in Indonesia and Thailand. AP/Dita Alangkara

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In this May 16, 2015, file photo, former slave fisherman Myint Naing and his mother, Khin Than, cry as they are reunited after 22 years at their village in Mon State, Myanmar. The Associated Press has won the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, April 18, 2016 for public service for articles documenting the use of slave labor in the commercial seafood industry in Indonesia and Thailand. AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe

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Gary Pruitt, back to camera, President and CEO of The Associated Press, embraces reporter Martha Mendoza as the AP wins the Pulitzer Prize for public service, Monday, April 18, 2016 in New York. Mendoza, Robin McDowell, center, Esther Htusan, far left, and Margie Mason, not seen, chronicled how men from Myanmar and other countries were being imprisoned, sometimes in cages, in an island village in Indonesia and forced to work on fishing vessels. AP's international enterprise editor Mary Rajkumar, second left, also congratulated the reporters. AP/Mark Lennihan

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Gary Pruitt, right, President and CEO of the Associated Press, applauds as the AP wins the Pulitzer Prize for public service, Monday, April 18, 2016, in New York. Standing with Pruitt are AP reporters, Esther Htusan, left, Martha Mendoza, center, and Robin McDowell, second from right along with AP's international enterprise editor Mary Rajkumar. Their work documented the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables, an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers. AP/Mark Lennihan

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Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza, right, speaks in the New York newsroom as the AP wins the Pulitzer Prize for public service, Monday, April 18, 2016, in New York. AP journalists Esther Htusan, left, Robin McDowell, center, Mendoza and Margie Mason, not seen, documented the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables, an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers. AP's international enterprise editor Mary Rajkumar, second left, congratulated the reporters. AP/Mark Lennihan

19 April 2016 00:00 WIB

Associated Press employees applaud as the AP wins the Pulitzer Prize for public service, Monday, April 18, 2016, in New York. The AP report documented the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables, an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers. AP/Mark Lennihan

19 April 2016 00:00 WIB