Jessika Aro was to receive the award in March 2019, but the state department took it away after finding tweets attacking the president
The US state department “owes an apology” to a Finnish journalist who saw the International Women of Courage Award, bestowed in part for her work on Russia, taken away because she criticised Donald Trump on social media, a prominent senator said.
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