Past Winners | Human Rights Press Awards

24th Human Rights Press Awards Winners (2020)

winners by categories

People’s Choice Photo Award

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Unwanted in Myanmar, unwelcome in Bangladesh

Fred Dufour - AFP

Audio

English

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How the United Nations in Myanmar failed the Rohingya

Jonah Fisher - BBC News

Chinese

Winner

Mainland to tighten grip on protestant churches

Emily Chan Miu Ling - RTHK

Merit

“Miss You”— the second anniversary of the 709 incident

Lam Hon Shan - RTHK

Merit

Keeping the faith – Xu Zhiyong’s first interview after his release from prison

Lam Hon Shan - RTHK

Multimedia

English

Winner

Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s surveillance state overwhelms daily life

Josh Chin, Clément Bürge and Giulia Marchi - Wall Street Journal

Merit

Confiscation crusaders try to save Philippine paradise

Karl Malakunas - AFP

Chinese

Winner

Legal Records of Civil Disobedience

Ng Yuen Ying - CitizenNews

Merit

One year into the Philippines’ war on drugs

Gary Lo - HK01

Merit

Data visualized: The impact of Beijing’s eviction of the ‘low-end population’

Danielle Wang, Victoria Jin and Xu Xiaotong - Initium Media

Text & Print – Spot News

English

Winner

Unwanted in Myanmar, unwelcome in Bangladesh

Sam Jahan, Nick Perry, Redwan Ahmed and Claire Cozens - AFP

Merit

Blood flowed in the streets: Refugees from one Rohingya hamlet recount days of horror & Everyone has parents but us

Annie Gowen - Washington Post

Merit

Chinese billionaire abducted from Hong Kong

Ben Bland, Jamil Anderlini, Gloria Cheung and Lucy Hornby - Financial Times

Chinese

Winner

Exclusive: Liu Xiaobo’s final gift to wife Liu Xia – his last manuscript fully revealed

Annie Zhang - Initium Media

Merit

Li Wangling speaks out five years after activist Li Wangyang’s death

Lin Ying - Ming Pao

Merit

[HK01 survey] Scholars shocked to find 33% primary school SEN students victims of bullying

Liu Kit Yin - HK01

Text & Print – Features

English

Winner

This is what a 21st century surveillance state looks like

Megha Rajagopalan - BuzzFeed News

by Patrick Winn and Muktadir Rashid of Public Radio International

Merit

Myanmar’s army is tormenting Muslims with a brutal rape campaign

Patrick Winn and Muktadir Rashid - Public Radio International

Merit

China’s Uighurs

Gerry Shih - The Associated Press

Chinese

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The invisible wall: Hong Kong’s refugees

Cheng Tsz Yu - Ming Pao Weekly

Merit

Covered wounds: Youth face sexual abuse in resettlement homes

Chien Yung Ta - The Reporter

Merit

Lamentations of the homeless: The people without a place to be

Kim Chan Ping Ting - The News Lens

Text & Print – Commentary

English

Winner

Cambodia’s Crackdown: What happens when an autocrat shutters a newspaper

Julia Wallace - The Nation

Merit

Thailand’s monarchy: where does love end and dread begin?

Michael Peel - Financial Times

Repatriation not enough, by Oliver Slow and Thomas Kean of Frontier Myanmar

Merit

A deepening crisis The value of a life & Repatriation not enough

Oliver Slow and Thomas Kean - Frontier Myanmar

Chinese

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In the name of national security

To Yiu Ming - Ming Pao

Merit

Joint checkpoints: How they are done under British and French law

Alvin Lum - CitizenNews

Merit

European Journalist of the Year Can Dündar: A lifelong pursuit for truth

Chinghua Tsai - Opinions@CommonWealth

Television & Video

English

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Murder on campus

Secunder Kermani - BBC News, “Our World”

Merit

The Kill List

Aurora Almendral and Ed Ou - NBC Left Field

Merit

101 East: The Rohingya exodus

Drew Ambrose - Al Jazeera English

Chinese

Winner

Sunday Report: Liu Xiaobo

Choi Chin Hung, Kris, Chiu Chun Ting and Diana Lin - Television Broadcasts Limited

Merit

The investment of sweat and blood

Cheng Sze Sze - Hong Kong Connection, RTHK

Merit

The Redress

Wong Wai Yu, Jovy - Hong Kong i-CABLE News, China Desk

Photography – Spot News

English

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Staring at Death

Indranil Mukherjee - AFP

Chinese

Merit

Inside and outside the police car

Kyle Lam - HK01

Photography – Features

English

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Rohingya Crisis

Tomas Munita - The New York Times

Merit

Jade Mining in Myanmar

Adam Dean - TIME Magazine

Merit

Exchange health for economic miracle: Story of Samsung workers with cancer

Li Chak Tung - HK01

Tertiary – Radio, Television & Video

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Students stand in solidarity with the workers

Lam Sum Yi, Hui Lee Ha, Chan Tsz Ki and Liu Dicksa Isabelle - U-Beat Magazine, CUHK

Merit

The plight of the cleaners

Chan On Ki, Lam Oi Yee, Leung Yuk Man, Mak Tsun Ho and Mok Wing Tung - U-Beat Magazine, CUHK

Merit

Growing up with homosexual parents

LEE Tsz Ying and Lau Tsz Lam - Broadcast News Network, HKBU

Tertiary – Text

English

Merit

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Fiona Chan, Angela Siu, Kristy Tong, Doris Yu, Crystal Wu, Elaine Ng, Marilyn Ma, Grace Liyang and Chloe Kwan - Varsity, CUHK

Chinese

Winner

Elegy of the iPhone: Unions and management conspire against workers

He Ji Shu, Ko Chung Lai and Lo Wai Ting - U-Beat Magazine, CUHK

Merit

Popularising teaching in sign language: Let deaf students understand

Mok Wing Tung and Lui Wing Yiu - U-Beat Magazine, CUHK

Merit

28th Anniversary series for the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre

Chong Hiu Tung - CitizenNews

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22nd Human Rights Press Awards: Bringing light to the darkest of stories

28/08/2018

The Correspondent spoke to six winners about their work and what winning a Human Rights Press Award means to them.

Simon Denyer's Washington Post article drew attention to the shocking death of Tsering Tso.

Shining a light on injustice helps, but doesn’t always fix it, says award-winning journalist Simon Denyer

12/04/2018

Giving a voice to the powerless in the case of a family’s search for the truth about their daughter’s death was the legacy of an award-winning story by Simon Denyer.

The HK01 team won the award for Best Chinese News Feature for their piece, Abuse at a care centre for the disabled.

Damning care home abuse report won the battle but not the war – HRPA winner

31/01/2018

A tip-off about abuse in a care home for the disabled led to an undercover investigation that culminated in the centre being closed down – and won a Hong Kong news website a Human Rights Press Award.

Anuj Chopra's exclusive report on child sex slavery in Afghanistan's security force won a Human Rights Press Award. Photo: AFP

Our reporting acted as a chink in the wall of silence, says HRPA 2016 winner

04/01/2018

Reporting on war-torn Afghanistan is a challenge in itself, but for former AFP Kabul bureau chief Anuj Chopra there was an equally urgent issue to bring to the world’s attention: child sex slavery within the country’s police force.

Essay Contest winner returns from Italy fellowship

05/05/2016

The Human Rights Press Awards chose Melissa Leung On-Ki, a 20-year-old University of Hong Kong journalism student, as the winner of its 2016 Youth Essay