Savad Rahman

Savad Rahman (സവാദ് റഹ്മാന്‍, सवाद रहमान, صفد رحمن, سواد رحمن) is a journalist with Madhyamam the Malayalam daily newspaper. He was born in Palakkad district in Kerala in the year 1979. He is currently working as Senior sub editor of the Madhyamam. His focus is mainly on human rights and environmental and most of his articles are based on the oppression faced by various strands of the society.

Savad is well known as the winner of Development Journalist of Asia Award from Asian Development Bank Institute. He has also won the International Journalism Prize for Social and Environmental Responsibility awarded by the Social and Environmental Responsibility World Forum in partnership with the World Editors Forum.