WINNERS OF 2020 HUMAN RIGHTS PRESS AWARDS ANNOUNCED
HONG KONG, May 6, 2020 — In a year of protests in Hong Kong, a sudden lockdown in Kashmir and government crackdowns on “fake news,” the winning entries in the Human Rights Press Awards (HRPA) showcase tenacity and creativity of journalistic story-telling about human rights in Asia.
A deep dive by The Washington Post into police conduct during Hong Kong’s months-long demonstrations, titled “In Hong Kong Crackdown, Police Repeatedly Broke Their Own Rules — and Faced No Consequences”, won the English-language Investigative Feature Writing award.
“This is arguably, from a human rights perspective, one of the most important journalistic pieces to come out of the protests,” the panel of judges said of the multimedia story.
Stand News was awarded the best Explanatory Chinese Feature Writing for its micro analysis of the clash between police and protesters on June 12, 2019. The clash is considered a watershed of the anti-extradition bill movement. In recommending this article, the judge panel said: “This montage of facts goes beyond a reconstruction of the important day. It tells the inevitability and accidentality of history.”
View the full list of winners and runners-up here
Now in the 24th year, the HRPA is Asia’s most prestigious celebration of journalism that raises awareness of human rights issues and shines a light on threats to freedom.
There were a record 488 submissions in all formats, driven by a big jump in the number of photographic entries, which more than doubled in the past year.
The winning entries included The Guardian’s on-the-ground video coverage from Kashmir and a BBC documentary, “Inside China’s Camps”, providing a powerful account of the situation in Xinjiang, where journalists’ work is often impeded by authorities.
Reports on overcrowding in Philippine jails, India’s citizenship drive in Assam and an interview with the wife of Chinese rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong were among the winners and runners-up in 22 categories.
A team of nine reporters from the Wall Street Journal won the Breaking News Writing award for what the judges called their “comprehensive and sweeping narrative” of the events of October 1 in the Hong Kong protests.
The Chinese-language winners also featured dynamic storytelling from the most dramatic moments of the protests.
RTHK’s radio report on “The Exodus from Polytechnic University” took the Audio prize and Stand News won the Breaking News Writing award for its account of the Yuen Long mob attack.
The People’s Choice Award received an astounding 47,451 online votes, with the public choosing their favorite photo from a selection of six outstanding images. The winning shot, by Lai Chun Kit for Ming Pao, showed a protester using a mattress from a dormitory to shield himself during clashes with police at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
HRPA is organised by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong, Amnesty International Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
The 2020 awards ceremony has been postponed as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. All the prize-winning photographs, including runners-up, will be displayed at the Hong Kong FCC and are open to public viewing.
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Breaking News Writing (English)
A Day of Violence
Natasha Khan, Joyu Wang, John Lyons, Chun Han Wong, Wenxin Fan, Mike Bird, Lucy Craymer, Jing Yang and Eva Dou of The Wall Street Journal
Kashmir Lockdown Coverage
Al Jazeera English Digital Newsdesk of Al Jazeera Online
Investigative Feature Writing (English)
In Hong Kong Crackdown, Police Repeatedly Broke Their Own Rules — and Faced No Consequences
Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin, Tiffany Liang and Ryan Ho Kilpatrick of The Washington Post
Amazon’s Troubled Asian Supply Chain
Jon Emont, Alexandra Berzon, Justin Scheck and Shane Shifflett of The Wall Street Journal
Abortions, IUDs and Sexual Humiliation: Muslim Women Who Fled China for Kazakhstan Recount Ordeals
Amie Ferris-Rotman and Joel van Houdt of The Washington Post
Explanatory Feature Writing (English)
The People of Hong Kong
Natasha Khan, Wenxin Fan and John Lyons of The Wall Street Journal
Abandoned in Assam: India Creates Its Own Rohingya, and Calls Them ‘Bangladeshi’
Debasish Roy Chowdhury of South China Morning Post
Where 518 Inmates Sleep in Space for 170, and Gangs Hold It Together
Aurora Almendral of New York Times
Commentary Writing (English)
The Crackdown Has Begun: Holding Power to Account in Hong Kong
Jillian Kay Melchior of The Wall Street Journal
Born Illegal: Detained Rohingya Children Are Victims, Not Criminals
Thomas Kean of Frontier Myanmar
Short Video (English)
Defending Kashmir: Anchar’s Last Stand Against India’s Control
Ahmer Khan, Siddharth Bokolia, Sami Ullah, Rebecca Ratcliffe and Claudine Spera of The Guardian
Hong Kong Protesters: ‘If We Burn, You Burn with Us’
Marc Hofer, Michael Greenfield, Tom Cheshire, Alain Lau and Bo Chau of Sky News
Documentary Video (English)
Inside China’s Camps
John Sudworth, Kathy Long, Wang Xiqing and Lulu Luo of BBC World News
In the Prisons that Don’t Exist
Yvonne Tong of Radio Television Hong Kong
The War on Afghan Women
Karishma Vyas of 101 East, Al Jazeera English
Multimedia (English)
Xinjiang: China’s Drive for Control
Josh Chin and Clément Bürge of The Wall Street Journal
Tertiary Student Writing (English)
Gender-based Violence against Journalists in Hong Kong
Lin Zhihuai, Kwok Hiu Ching and Wong Ting Yan of Data Story, HKBU
Merit
In a Leaderless Movement, Hong Kong’s Student Activists Face Local and International Threats
Chow Yat Yanni and Anna Kam of The Young Reporter, HKBU
Social Workers Hopeful Looking at the Future of Ethnic Minorities
Chow Yat Yanni and Woo Chun Nok King of The Young Reporter, HKBU
Breaking News Writing (Chinese)
Fiendish Mob Beat People with Wooden Sticks: Stand News Reporter and Civilians Injured and Police Absent for the First 30 Minutes
Ho Kwai Lam of Stand News
Explosions in Jiangsu’s Xiangshui Series
Ye Jiabin, Susie Wu and Xu Han of Initium Media
After Effects of Tear Gas Grenades in the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement Series
Pun Pak Lam, Chan Siu Kai and Wong Sum Yee Esther of Apple Daily
Investigative Feature Writing (Chinese)
Hidden Victims — Drug Mules: Investigation of Cross Border Human Trafficking
Cheng Tsz Yu, Ci Meilin, Lao Xianliang, Leung Pang Wai and Yip Ka Ho of HK01
Silent Extinction: Concentration Camps in Xinjiang, China
Jason C.H. Liu, Chia-Ci Hsu, Kai-Heng Ma, Paris Lin, Yue Chu and Shu-Chien Shen of The Reporter
Fact Check: 831 Police Violence in Prince Edward MTR Station
Lam Yan and Leung Chun Kan of Stand News
Explanatory Feature Writing (Chinese)
Revisiting 612: What Happened?
Leung Chun Kan, Leung Hoi Ching and Leung Tin Sum of Stand News
3 Barristers Cite European Cases: STS (Special Tactical Squad) Uniforms Not Showing Police Numbers Unconstitutional
Ng Yuen Ying of CitizenNews
Maritime Idyll of Stateless Bajau Laut: Our Border is Where Boats Could Reach
Chiew Hui Yee of Initium Media
Commentary Writing (Chinese)
Tip-offs, Pink Terror and Non-establishment Totalitarianism
Byron Chen of Initium Media
Short Video (Chinese)
721 White-clad Mob Attacks in Yuen Long, and Attack on Stand News Reporter
Ho Kwai Lam of Stand News
The Truth: 811 Police Violence
Ho Hoi Ling of NowTV
Express Delivery Company Embargoed
Yip Chun Chun and Lo Pui Shan of Radio Television Hong Kong
Documentary Video (Chinese)
Hong Kong Connection: Anti-Extradition Bill Movement Series
Hong Kong Connection of Radio Television Hong Kong
“This Week” — Black Mirror: Social Credit System and Big Data Life in China,
“SkyEye”, “A Credit Score is for Life”, “The Plight of Dishonest Persons”
Nabela Qoser, Cheung Kit Yan Gloria and Lui Lok of Radio Television Hong Kong
64.30 : Revelation to Asia
Jovy Wong, Chui Man Kit, Rex Yung, Vykie Chin and Edith Leung of i-Cable News
Audio (Chinese)
The Exodus from Polytechnic University
Li Tai Wai and Wang Ming Hei of Radio Television Hong Kong
Testimonies: Abuses in the Concentration Camps in Xinjiang
Chau Chi Wing of Radio Television Hong Kong
No Place to Call Home
Chan Wan Ru of Radio Taiwan International
Multimedia (Chinese)
Land of Prisons
Apple Daily
Interactive Page on 721 Yuen Long Terrorist Attack
Cheung Hoi Kit, Egon Sung and Cherry Wong of CitizenNews
9 Memories of the Tiananmen Square: Workers, Teachers, Students, Mothers, Reporters
Initium Media
Tertiary Student Writing (Chinese)
Unspoken Wounds: Secret Treatments of Volunteer Doctors
Hu Meng Qi, Lin Ka Man and Li Wai Shan of U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Love and Hate on the Other Shore: Interview of Jin Bianling, Wife of 709 Rights Lawyer Jiang Tianyong
Suen Chak Fong Fion and Chan Cho of U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Defending Rights in the Dark: Volunteer Lawyers in the Anti-Extradition Movement
Ng Chun Chun, Lo Man Lok and Gu Su Ying of U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Tertiary Student Video & Audio (Chinese)
Unconscious Woman Dragged by Police
Wong Man Yan of EdUHKSU Editorial Board
Is Being Young a Crime?
Chan Ching Kei, Ko Tsz Shun, Kong Wan and Wong Tsz Wing of TV Lab, School of Communication, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Where Have All the Helpers Gone?
Leung Ka Ching, Lo Man Lok, Wong Ho Man and Wong Tin Wing of U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Photography (Single Image)
Police Shoot Pepper Spray onto Protesters in Hong Kong
Yu Chun Leung of HK01
Hong Kong Trust Crisis: Extreme Sieges at Universities
Billy H.C. Kwok of Getty Images
The Jade Crisis
Hkun Lat of Frontier Myanmar
Photography (Series)
Hong Kong Protests 2019
Anthony Wallace of Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Anti-Extradition Bill Protests in Hong Kong
Lam Chun Tung of Initium Media
Hong Kong Trust Crisis: Extreme Sieges at Universities
Billy H.C. Kwok of Getty Images
People’s Choice Photo Award
Mattress Shield
Lai Chun Kit of Ming Pao
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