24th Human Rights Press Awards Winners (2020)
winners by categories
People’s Choice Photo Award
Audio
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 TimesChinese

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, Text & Print - Spot News (Chinese):[HK01 survey] Scholars shocked to find 33% primary school SEN students victims of bullying. Liu Kit Yin of HK01](https://humanrightspressawards.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/【01問卷調查(上)】33小學SEN生遇欺凌等不公 學者:好驚人-150x150.jpg)
Merit
[HK01 survey] Scholars shocked to find 33% primary school SEN students victims of bullying
Liu Kit Yin - HK01Text & Print – Features
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
Merit
A deepening crisis The value of a life & Repatriation not enough
Oliver Slow and Thomas Kean - Frontier MyanmarTelevision & Video
English

Winner
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 EnglishChinese

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 DeskPhotography – Spot News
English

Winner
Staring at Death
Indranil Mukherjee - AFPChinese

Merit
Inside and outside the police car
Kyle Lam - HK01Tertiary – Radio, Television & Video

Winner
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, HKBUTertiary – Text
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 - CitizenNewsWinners Stories

22nd Human Rights Press Awards: Bringing light to the darkest of stories
The Correspondent spoke to six winners about their work and what winning a Human Rights Press Award means to them.

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

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

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