In addition to the main 2010 prize, won by Julian Assange for WikiLeaks, special awards were made to Jonathan Cook, based in Nazareth, for his work on the Middle East, to Charles Clover of The Financial Times and to Umar Cheema of The News International website in Pakistan for his fearless exposure of government corruption. The 2009 award was won by Johann Hari of The Independent. The 2008 award was won by Ian Cobain of The Guardian. Previous winners include Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, and Mohammed Omer (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), Hala Jaber (Sunday Times), Michael Tierney (Glasgow Herald), Robert Fisk (The Independent), Ghaith Abdul Ahad (The Guardian), Patrick Cockburn (The Independent), Chris McGreal (The Guardian), Geoffrey Lean (The Independent) and Nick Davies (The Guardian). Additional awards for distinguished work over many years in the service of journalism were made to Marie Colvin (Sunday Times) in 2010 and Jonathan Steele (The Guardian) in 2006.