Gunned-down Iraqi Journalist Wins Amnesty Uk Media Award
Amnesty International has posthumously awarded its new media award to Iraqi journalist Sahar al-Haideri. By Stephen Brook
Amnesty International has posthumously awarded its new media award to Iraqi journalist Sahar al-Haideri.
Al-Haideri was shot dead weeks after the Institute for War and Peace Reporting published her article "Honor killing sparks fears of new Iraqi conflict" on its website.She was killed in her home city of Mosul, after receiving 15 death threats prompted by her series of stories on "honor" killings and the rising tide of violence against women in Iraq.
The recipient of the Amnesty International special award for human rights journalism under threat went to Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani, former editor of Yemen's political weekly newspaper Al-Shora. He was unable to attend the ceremony because he had been sent to prison a week earlier.
BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who won Amnesty's radio award last year on the day he was released from captivity in Gaza, announced the special award.
Other winners of the 17th Amnesty International UK media awards announced last night included Xan Rice of the Guardian and Deborah Haynes of the Times.
Rice won the Gaby Rado Memorial Award for his coverage of Africa. The award is presented to a journalist who has covered human rights for less than five years.
Haynes, the Times Baghdad correspondent, won for her series of articles on the plight of former British Army interpreters, allegedly abandoned by their former employers.
The coverage led to the UK government offering hundreds of Iraqi employees compensation or asylum.
The winners
Winners of this year's Amnesty UK media awards were announced in a ceremony at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London last night hosted by broadcaster Moira Stuart.
Gaby Rado Memorial Award (for a journalist covering human rights for less than five years)Xan RiceThe Guardian
International Television and RadioThe lost tribe - Secret army of the CIAAl Jazeera EnglishEunice Lau, Stephanie Scawen, Tricia Tan, Tony Birtley
National NewspapersIraqi interpreters seriesThe TimesDeborah Haynes
New MediaHonour killing sparks fears of new Iraqi conflict, Sahar Al-Haideri, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Nations and RegionsCongo to Motherwell, BBC Scotland, Fiona Walker, Dorothy Parker, Fiona Walker, Matt Pinder, Susan McCusker Thompson
Newspaper supplementsSelling soccer into slaveryLive magazine, Mail on SundayJonathan Green
Consumer magazinesRussian media freedomIndex on CensorshipFatima Tlisova, Sergei Bachiwin, Alexei Simonov
PhotojournalismCongo unrestNewsweek C?dric Gerbehaye
RadioWhere there's muck: Mike Thomson in the CongoRadio 4, Today ProgramPascale Harter, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thompson
Television Documentary and DocudramaStoryville: The devil came on horseback, BBC4 / Break Thru FilmsGretchen Wallace, Jane Wells, Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern, Nick Fraser, Brian Steidle
Television NewsToo young to die - Children of the frontlineITV News / ITNChris Rogers, Deborah Turness, Tony Hemmings
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Al-Haideri was shot dead weeks after the Institute for War and Peace Reporting published her article "Honor killing sparks fears of new Iraqi conflict" on its website.She was killed in her home city of Mosul, after receiving 15 death threats prompted by her series of stories on "honor" killings and the rising tide of violence against women in Iraq.
The recipient of the Amnesty International special award for human rights journalism under threat went to Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani, former editor of Yemen's political weekly newspaper Al-Shora. He was unable to attend the ceremony because he had been sent to prison a week earlier.
BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who won Amnesty's radio award last year on the day he was released from captivity in Gaza, announced the special award.
Other winners of the 17th Amnesty International UK media awards announced last night included Xan Rice of the Guardian and Deborah Haynes of the Times.
Rice won the Gaby Rado Memorial Award for his coverage of Africa. The award is presented to a journalist who has covered human rights for less than five years.
Haynes, the Times Baghdad correspondent, won for her series of articles on the plight of former British Army interpreters, allegedly abandoned by their former employers.
The coverage led to the UK government offering hundreds of Iraqi employees compensation or asylum.
The winners
Winners of this year's Amnesty UK media awards were announced in a ceremony at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London last night hosted by broadcaster Moira Stuart.
Gaby Rado Memorial Award (for a journalist covering human rights for less than five years)Xan RiceThe Guardian
International Television and RadioThe lost tribe - Secret army of the CIAAl Jazeera EnglishEunice Lau, Stephanie Scawen, Tricia Tan, Tony Birtley
National NewspapersIraqi interpreters seriesThe TimesDeborah Haynes
New MediaHonour killing sparks fears of new Iraqi conflict, Sahar Al-Haideri, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Nations and RegionsCongo to Motherwell, BBC Scotland, Fiona Walker, Dorothy Parker, Fiona Walker, Matt Pinder, Susan McCusker Thompson
Newspaper supplementsSelling soccer into slaveryLive magazine, Mail on SundayJonathan Green
Consumer magazinesRussian media freedomIndex on CensorshipFatima Tlisova, Sergei Bachiwin, Alexei Simonov
PhotojournalismCongo unrestNewsweek C?dric Gerbehaye
RadioWhere there's muck: Mike Thomson in the CongoRadio 4, Today ProgramPascale Harter, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thompson
Television Documentary and DocudramaStoryville: The devil came on horseback, BBC4 / Break Thru FilmsGretchen Wallace, Jane Wells, Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern, Nick Fraser, Brian Steidle
Television NewsToo young to die - Children of the frontlineITV News / ITNChris Rogers, Deborah Turness, Tony Hemmings
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