 The award has had the patronage of the president of the Italian Republic since its first edition, the Premio Testimone di Pace has been awarded the prestigious membership of the president of the Italian Republic accompanied by special presidential medal.It has also received the support of Genoa City of Rights.The international scope of the award has grown from year to year, confirming in 2011 with the award of the prize to a Chechen exile, Shachman Akbulatov, who in 2008 was appointed director of the Memorial (association) of Grozny, and that hard work brought forth a complaint of abuse and oppression in Chechnya, where were killed in the same years, some journalists and human rights activists, including journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the freelance journalist Italian Antonio Russo (formerly Witness of Peace, 2006).