Awards 2004

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Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Awards exist to celebrate individuals or groups who have had a significant impact fighting censorship anywhere in the world.

Awards were offered in: Books, Film, Journalism, Whistleblowing, a special award and Censor of the Year. Winners were honoured at a gala celebration in London at City Hall

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”83392″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”WINNERS” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1483465213837{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Satyendra Kumar Dubey” title=”Whistleblower” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83333″]Satyendra Kumar Dubey was a senior engineer working on the giant Golden Quadrilateral road project in the Bihar province in India. His murder on 27 November 2003 was probably connected with his anti-corruption campaign.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Mordechai Vanunu” title=”Index Special Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83334″]Between 1976 and 1985 Mordechai Vanunu worked as a nuclear technician at Dimona in the Negev desert. He was kidnapped, tried in secret on charges of treason and espionage and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for exposing Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons to the press. On 21 April 2004 he was released conditionally and has since then been fighting for the right to leave the country.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Kaveh Golestan” title=”The Index / Hugo Young Journalism Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83329″]Pulitzer Prize winning photo-journalist Kaveh Golestan often risked his own life to report about events nobody else covered like the gas attacks on Kurdish towns in Iraq or the situation in Iran during the war with Iraq. He was killed by a landmine in Northern Iraq in 2003.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony, Director Lee Hirsch” title=”Index Film Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83328″]Amandla! by Lee Hirsch tells the story of black South African freedom music and reveals the central role it played in the long struggle against apartheid. The film focuses on how music was used to circumvent other forms of state censorship.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Slave by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis” title=”Index Book Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83331″]The book Slave by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis gives an account of modern day’s slavery telling the story of Mende herself who was abducted in Sudan at the age of 12 and were held in slavery for 7 years. She managed to escape after being passed on by her master to a relative in London.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”West-Eastern Divan Orchestra” title=”Index Music Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83332″]Despite criticism conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian philosopher Edward Said created the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth orchestra whose musicians cross the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Its performances in Arab and Western countries have been a huge success.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”John Ashcroft” title=”Censor of the Year” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83330″]From the Patriot Act to Guantanamo, as Attorney general of the US, John Ashcroft has set the standard of repression that is not only an affront to liberty in the US, but a negative model authoritarian governments throughout the world are following.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”JUDGING” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner el_class=”mw700″][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]

Criteria – Anyone involved in tackling free expression threats – either through journalism, campaigning, the arts or using digital techniques – is eligible for nomination.

Any individual, group or NGO can nominate or self-nominate. There is no cost to apply.

Judges look for courage, creativity and resilience. We shortlist on the basis of those who are deemed to be making the greatest impact in tackling censorship in their chosen area, with a particular focus on topics that are little covered or tackled by others.

Nominees must have had a recognisable impact in the past 12 months.

Where a judge comes from a nominee’s country, or where there is any other potential conflict of interest, the judge will abstain from voting in that category.

Panel – Each year Index recruits an independent panel of judges – leading world voices with diverse expertise across campaigning, journalism, the arts and human rights.

The judges for 2005 were:

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Jason Burke” title=”Journalist” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83295″]Jason Burke is a prize-winning author and Chief Reporter for the Observer. Having lived in Middle East and Southwest Asia for more than a decade, Burke has become an expert on terrorism and saw many of the key events described in his books on Al-Qaeda at first hand.  His writing gives a critical perspective to the foundations of the ‘War on Terror.'[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Geoffrey Hosking” title=”Professor” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83297″]Geoffrey Hosking is Professor of Russian History at University College London and the author of several books. In 1988, he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on Gorbachev’s forms and their implications for free speech. He was involved in setting up of voluntary association’s post-Soviet Russia and is now writing a history of Russians in the USSR.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Baroness Helena Kennedy” title=”Barrister” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83293″]Baroness Helena Kennedy has acted in many leading cases including the Brighton Bombing Trial, the Guildford Four Appeal and many of the trials of battered women who kill their partners. She is Chair of the Human Genetics Commission and a member of the World Bank Institute’s External Advisory Council. Her new book Just Law on the changing face of British justice will be published in paperback in March of this year.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Hari Kunzru” title=”Journalist” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83296″]Hari Kunzru is a freelance journalist and editor living in London. He has worked as a travel journalist since 1998, writing for the Guardian, Time Out and the Daily Telegraph. His first novel The Impressionist won the 2002 Betty Trask Prize and the 2003 Somerset Maugham award and was also shortlisted for several awards, including the 2002 Whitbread First Novel Award.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Bill Nighy” title=”Actor” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83298″]After training at Guildford School of Dance and Drama, Bill Nighy has won countless awards for his stage and screen performances including the Evening Standard Best Actor Award for Love Actually. Other films include Still Crazy, Lawless Heart, Shaun of the Dead and I Capture the Castle. Most recently he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his stage performance in Blue/Orange.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Chris Woodhead” title=”Writer and academic” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83294″]In 2002, Professor Chris Woodhead resigned as Chief Inspector of Schools in order to be able to speak out on educational and political issues. He now writes for the Sunday Times and other national newspapers and appears regularly on many television and radio programmes questioning half-baked orthodoxies and ridicule the jargon that so often these days passes for thought. He also holds the Sir Stanley Kalm Chair in Education at the University of Buckingham.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1483537690629{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1473325567468{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][awards_gallery_slider name=”GALLERY” images_url=”83356,83357,83358,83359,83360,83361,83362,83363,83364,83365,83366,83367,83368,83369,83370,83371,83372,83373,83374,83375,83376,83377,83378,83379,83380,83381,83382,83383,83384,83385,83386,83387,83388,83389,83390,83391,83392″][/vc_column][/vc_row]