See our gallery of photos from the 23rd Human Rights Press Awards ceremony held at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong.
The Human Rights Press Awards recognise top rights-related reporting from around Asia, with the goal of increasing respect for people’s basic rights and focusing attention on threats to those freedoms.
The awards, which are now in their 23rd year, are organised by The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
The 2019 awards, for work published or broadcast in the 2018 calendar year, were announced on May 16, 2019.
HRPA WINNERS ANNOUNCED
At a ceremony held at the FCC in Hong Kong, journalists and photographers were honoured for their rights-related reporting. Rappler's Maria Ressa gave the keynote speech.
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo and their colleagues were honoured with this year’s award for Best Investigative Feature Writing, in recognition of their groundbreaking work “Myanmar Burning".
The Human Rights Press Awards is delighted to announce that Maria Ressa, the co-founder of news website Rappler, will be the keynote speaker at the awards ceremony on May 16.
2018 Winners
Chan On Ki, Lam Oi Yee, Leung Yuk Man, Mak Tsun Ho and Mok Wing Tung
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
LEE Tsz Ying and Lau Tsz Lam
Broadcast News Network, HKBU
Lam Sum Yi, Hui Lee Ha, Chan Tsz Ki and Liu Dicksa Isabelle
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Fiona Chan, Angela Siu, Kristy Tong, Doris Yu, Crystal Wu, Elaine Ng, Marilyn Ma, Grace Liyang and Chloe Kwan
Varsity, CUHK
Mok Wing Tung and Lui Wing Yiu
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Chong Hiu Tung
CitizenNews
He Ji Shu, Ko Chung Lai and Lo Wai Ting
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Fred Dufour
AFP
Lam Hon Shan
RTHK
Emily Chan Miu Ling
RTHK
Cheng Sze Sze
Hong Kong Connection, RTHK
Choi Chin Hung, Kris, Chiu Chun Ting and Diana Lin
Television Broadcasts Limited
Danielle Wang, Victoria Jin and Xu Xiaotong
Initium Media
Alvin Lum
CitizenNews
Chinghua Tsai
Opinions@CommonWealth
Chien Yung Ta
The Reporter
Kim Chan Ping Ting
The News Lens
Cheng Tsz Yu
Ming Pao Weekly
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Annie Zhang
Initium Media
Jonah Fisher
BBC News
Aurora Almendral and Ed Ou
NBC Left Field
Karl Malakunas
AFP
Josh Chin, Clément Bürge and Giulia Marchi
Wall Street Journal
Michael Peel
Financial Times
Oliver Slow and Thomas Kean
Frontier Myanmar
Julia Wallace
The Nation
Patrick Winn and Muktadir Rashid
Public Radio International
Megha Rajagopalan
BuzzFeed News
Ben Bland, Jamil Anderlini, Gloria Cheung and Lucy Hornby
Financial Times
Sam Jahan, Nick Perry, Redwan Ahmed and Claire Cozens
AFP
Organizers
