Amnesty Media Awards 2021 Finalists and Winners:
Broadcast News
BBC Africa Eye: Lagos Inferno
Channel 4 News: Carers in Scotland denied death in service payment
CNN International: Lekki Toll Gate Shooting Investigation
Sky News: Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis
Features
CNN International: They were sent to a shelter for safety. Instead, these women say they were sexually abused
Financial Times: Inside Thailand’s Youth Revolution
CNN International: ‘Black Gold’ – How global demand for hair products is linked to forced labor in Xinjiang
The Guardian: Fashion’s dirty secret: how sexual assault took hold in jeans factories
Regional Media
BBC Radio Foyle: Special reports on domestic abuse in lockdown
WalesOnline: ‘I came to the UK on an inflatable dinghy bobbing around in the Channel for hours’
The Times (Scotland): Hardeep Singh Kohli investigation: The survivors finally have their say
BBC One Scotland: A Deadly Trade
Student Journalist
Caitlin Kelly, City, University of London: When Sex Games Go Wrong
Hanna Linnéa Mödder, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London: “I’m afraid of the disease but mostly of dying from hunger”
Victor Jack, University of Cambridge: I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps. This is my story
Nimra Shahid, City, University of London: Cummings recruit sacked after suggesting police use ‘live rounds’ on BLM protesters
Radio & Podcasts
BBC Radio 4: From the Ashes of New Cross
Prison Radio Association / Resonance FM / Radio Reverb / East Leeds FM: Prison Bag selection
Novel: The Bellingcat Podcast, Series 2
BBC World Service: The Many Colours of Raqqa
Written News
The Independent: How Israel is ‘bombing Gaza blind’ with old intelligence
Middle East Eye: The Killing Fields of Libya’s Tarhuna
The Guardian: Croatian Police Brutality Against Crosses on our heads to ‘cure’ Covid-19: refugees report abuse by Croatian police
The Telegraph: After the bombs they attacked with knives, claim Ethiopians fleeing peace prize winner’s war
Photojournalism
Noriko Hayashi, Granta: Japanese Wives
Robin Hammond, The Guardian: All we can offer is the chain
Sam Tarling, The Times: Yemen’s children condemned to sickness and famine by war
Smita Sharma, National Geographic Magazine: Stolen Lives
Best Use of Digital Media
AJ Contrast / Al Jazeera Digital: Living in the Unknown
Al Jazeera English Online / Al Jazeera Digital: Motherhood in Crisis
The Guardian: Beirut blast: a night of horror, captured by its victims
Al Jazeera English Online: The $5 Forests
The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist
Nader Ibrahim, BBC News Arabic: Libya’s Lethal ‘Game of Drones’
Nicola Kelly, The Guardian: No Place To Call Home
Nellie Peyton, Thomson Reuters Foundation & Robert Flummerfelt, The New Humanitarian: Over 50 women accuse Ebola aid workers of sex abuse in Congo
Venetia Menzies, The Times & The Sunday Times: One woman’s journey into modern slavery
Investigation
ITV News: Gymnastics Abuse Scandal
The Sunday Times: War Crimes Scandal
Channel 4 Dispatches: Starbucks and Nespresso: The Truth About Your Coffee
BBC News Arabic Documentaries: Undercover in the Schools that Chain Boys
Documentaries
ITV Exposure: In Cold Blood
BBC Two: Once Upon a Time in Iraq
BBC 4: The Accused: Damned or Devoted?
BBC Storyville: Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge
