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It is with shock and infinite sadness that AFP staff in France and the world over learned of the death of Michèle Léridon, 62, a former AFP Global News Director and a figure universally respected at the Agency.

Michèle Léridon, former global news director and an iconic AFP journalist, died on Monday at the age of 62. Please send your tributes here if you knew or worked with her.

AFP’s coverage of the Covid pandemic, the trafficking of Rohingya refugees and pro-democracy protests in Thailand was recognised with five awards at the 25th edition of the annual Human Rights Press Awards, jointly organized by Amnesty International Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Journalists Association.

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Bülent Kiliç and Yasuyoshi Chiba awarded by Pictures of the Year.

French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) and its Global News Director, Ms Michèle Léridon, have been awarded the European Alliance of News Agencies´ (EANA) 2015 Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality.