Foreign correspondent Paul Salopek, who was imprisoned for five weeks in 2006 while reporting from Darfur, is being recognized by Colby College for his courageous journalism.

Salopek on Sunday will receive the Waterville college's 2009 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award. It honors the memory of Lovejoy, Colby's valedictorian in 1826 and a passionate abolitionist publisher who was killed in 1837 by a pro-slavery mob.

Salopek has reported from more than 50 countries in the developing world and more than 20 wars or conflicts. As a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, Salopek won the Pulitzer Prize twice for individual work.While reporting from Darfur, he was beaten and jailed but declined offers of freedom until he knew his Chadian driver and Sudanese translator would also be freed.