HUMAN RIGHTS PRESS AWARDS

Past Award Winners

The goal of the Awards is to increase respect for people’s basic rights and to focus attention on threats to those freedoms. We also aim to recognise and encourage excellent, investigative and original reporting on important issues in the mass media.

*Please note that this page is currently being updated with past winners weekly. This message will be removed when all past entrants are available. We thank you for your patience.

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Multimedia

2023

Honorable Mention

101 East: Cambodia's Cyber Slaves

Author: Mary Ann Jolley, David Boyle and Shaun Turton

Publication: Al Jazeera English

Language: English

Country: Cambodia

Breaking News Writing

2021

Winner

From Silence to Panics: The Scenes in Wuhan before the Coronavirus Pandemic

Author: Lee Tsz-Yu

Publication: Apple Daily

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Breaking News Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Prisoner of the State: Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Wang Quanzhang and the July 9th Crackdown

Author: Hung-Chin Chen, Mei-Jing Chen, Wei-Shao Wu, Wen-Han Tsou and Jeun-Hao Chao

Publication: Mirror Media

Language: Chinese

Country: Taiwan

Breaking News Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Series: The Silence after National Security Law Enacted for Three Months

Author: She Kam Hung and Sae-wong Angkamol

Publication: Apple Daily

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Breaking News Writing

2021

Winner

'End of the World': A Pandemic Begins in Wuhan

Author: Sebastien Ricci and Hector Retamal

Publication: Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Language: English

Country: China

Breaking News Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Deadly Divide: Communal Riots in India

Author: Abhaya Srivastava, Bhuvan Bagga, Jalees Andrabi, Maude Brulard and Archana Thiyagarajan

Publication: Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Language: English

Country: India

Breaking News Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Last Words of Hospital ‘EJK’ Victim: ‘The Police are About to Kill Me'

Author: Rambo Talabong

Publication: Rappler

Language: English

Country: Philippines

Investigative Feature Writing

2021

Winner

Reveal how the Hong Kong Government Conspired to Send 12 People to the Mainland China The Police to Monitor the Smuggling Boat in Fixed-wing Plane

Publication: Apple Daily

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Investigative Feature Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Forensic Architecture: An Investigation of How Tear Gas Canisters End up in Household

Author: Wing Yan Ng

Publication: Ming Pao Weekly

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong