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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Investigative Feature Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

The Outlaw Vessel: A Fisherman's Death on FOC Ship

Author: Yin Yu-Huan, Tsou Po-Hsiang, Lin Wei-Yen, Chaing I-Ting, Chen Yu-Chieh and Hsu Chia-Hui

Publication: Mirror Media

Language: Chinese

Country: Taiwan

Investigative Feature Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Eight Years after The Lamma Tragedy

Author: Chan Shun Hei, Leung Man Ki, Yip Oi Yiu and Chan Kit San

Publication: Stand News

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Investigative Feature Writing

2021

Winner

Fruits of Labor

Author: Margie Mason and Robin McDowell

Publication: Associated Press

Language: English

Country: Malaysia

Investigative Feature Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

The Takeover of Hong Kong

Author: Greg Torode, James Pomfret, David Lague and team

Publication: Reuters

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong

Investigative Feature Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Desperation, Greed, Violence: The Rohingya Trafficking Network

Author: Sam Jahan, Haeril Halim, Peter Brieger and Sam Reeves

Publication: Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Language: English

Country: Indonesia

Explanatory Feature Writing

2021

Winner

From Faceless to Voiceless: A Documentary Report of Hong Kong Citizens in Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement and National Security Law

Author: Hung-Chin Chen, Tzu-Lei Yang, Long-Hei Chan, Yu-Ju Lee, Tzy-Tyng Chen, Hanshun Wang, Ling-Wei Hsu, Yu-Fang Lin, Cheng-He Mi, Ya-Wun Jheng, Yi-Ching Wu, Yu-Chieh Chen, Yi-Fen Kao and Chun-Hsien Lee

Publication: Mirror Media

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Explanatory Feature Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Female Protester Li Qiaochu: "I have a Hero Complex, but the Hero I Imagined is Myself."

Author: Sophia Huang Xueqin

Publication: Initium Media and NGOCN

Language: Chinese

Country: China

Explanatory Feature Writing

2021

Winner

Inside India’s Muslim Pogrom

Author: Fahad Shah

Publication: The Nation and Vice News

Language: English

Country: India

Explanatory Feature Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Xi Jinping’s “China Solution”

Author: Chun Han Wong, Eva Xiao, Jonathan Cheng, Chao Deng and Liza Lin

Publication: The Wall Street Journal

Language: English

Country: China