23 Mar 2006 | Awards, Awards year slider
[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” css_animation=”fadeIn” css=”.vc_custom_1485789205412{padding-top: 250px !important;padding-bottom: 250px !important;background-image: url(https://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/awards2006-logo.jpg?id=83189) !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: repeat !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1472525914065{margin-top: -150px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner el_class=”awards-inside-desc” width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARDS 2006″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]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 five categories: Film, Journalism, Books, Law and Whistleblowing
- Winners were honoured at a gala celebration in London at Bloomberg
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”83179″ img_size=”460×260″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1472608310682{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WINNERS” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1477036676595{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Huang Jingao” title=”Whistleblower” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83189″]
Huang Jingao, a local Communist Party official in southern the People´s Republic of China, drew national attention in August 2004 by posting an open letter on a party website complaining that efforts to prosecute corruption had been thwarted by high-level officials. Removed from his post he was sentenced to life in prison in November 2005 after a campaign by party authorities.
[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Beatrice Mtetwa” title=”Bindmans Law and Campaigning Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83192″]Beatrice Mtetwa is a prominent media and human rights lawyer, working to defend and protect journalists in Zimbabwe in the face of frequent threats to her safety. Most recently Mtetwa secured the release of journalists Toby Harnden and Julian Simmonds of the London Sunday Telegraph, charged after publishing critical accounts of Zimbabwe’s flawed presidential elections.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Sihem Bensedrine” title=”The Index / Hugo Young Journalism Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83193″]Sihem Bensedrine is the editor of the banned magazine Kalima and a prominent activist for press freedom in Tunisia. During the World Summit on Information Society in Tunis in November 2005, Bensedrine helped highlight Tunisia’s restrictions on freedom of expression. She has been jailed for her opinions and faces regular harassment from the Tunisian authorities.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Turtles Can Fly, director Bahman Ghobadi” title=”Index Film Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83194″]Turtles Can Fly, director Bahman Ghobadi´s moving tale set in the harsh landscapes of Kurdistan in the days leading up to the US invasion of Iraq, won the Index Film Award. A gang of wily and irreverent children are challenged by the arrival of a brother and sister, refugees whose bodies and souls have been irreparably damaged by the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Into The Quick of Life: The Rwandan Genocide: The Survivors Speak and A Time for Machetes: The Rwandan Genocide: The Killers Speak by Jean Hatzfeld.” title=”TR Fyvel Book Award” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83195″]In the late 1990s, French journalist Jean Hatzfeld interviewed survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In 2000 he returned to interview the men behind one of the most devastating crimes against humanity in recent history.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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 2006 were:
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Matthew d’Ancona” title=”Journalist” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83119″]Matthew d’Ancona is Editor of The Spectator. Formerly Deputy Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, and Assistant Editor of The Times, he was named Political Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards in 2004. He is the co-author of two bestselling books on the origins of Christianity.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Delia Jarrett-Macauley ” title=”Writer and broadcaster” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83117″]Delia Jarrett-Macauley is an academic, writer and broadcaster. As a multi-disciplinary scholar in history, literature and cultural politics, she has devised, taught and examined a range of university courses and is the author of three books. Her first novel Moses, Citizen and Me (Granta) was published in 2005 to critical acclaim.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Mark Kermode” title=”Film Critic” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”81669″]Mark Mermode is a film critic, broadcaster and musician. Resident film critic for many BBC programmes such as Radio Five Love and the News Channel, he also frequently contributes to The Culture Show and Newsnight Review. He is contributing editor to Sight & Sound, a regular writer for the Observer. He has a PhD in modern English and American horror fiction, and is a fello of the English and Film Department of Southampton University. He plays the double bass in The Dodge Brothers.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Imran Khan” title=”Barrister” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83118″]Imran Khan specialises in civil rights law. He represented the family of Stephen Lawrence in a case that marked a turning point in the way the police investigate racist crimes. He has spoken and written widely on issues surrounding racism, immigration and anti-terrorism and was named Lawyer of the Year in Britain in 1999.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Conor Gearty” title=”Professor and barrister” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83115″]Conor Gearty is Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, a practicing barrister and professor of human rights law at the London School of Economics. His latest book is a study of the place of the Human Rights Act in Britain’s constitutional order.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Baroness Lola Young” title=”Author” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”83116″]Baroness Lola Young is director of the arts and heritage consultancy Cultural Brokers, and the former Head of Culture at the Greater London Authority. She has written numerous academic essays and articles as well as theatre and film reviews and a book on race, gender and sexuality in cinema.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1473325552363{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=”83121,83122,83123,83124,83125,83126,83127,83128,83129,83130,83131,83132,83133,83134,83135,83136,83137,83138,83139,83140,83141,83142,83143,83144,83145,83146,83147,83148,83149,83150,83151,83152,83153,83154,83155,83156,83157,83158,83159,83160,83161,83162,83163,83164,83165,83166,83167,83168,83169,83170,83171,83172,83173,83174,83175,83176,83177,83178,83179,83180,83181,83182,83183,83184,83185,83186″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
1 Mar 2006 | Awards
The Index on Censorship /TR Fyvel Book Award
In the late 1990s French Journalist Jean Hatzfeld visited two Rwandan villages and interviewed fourteen survivors of the 1994 massacre. In 2000 Hatzfeld returned to interview ten men who were later put on trial and convicted for their part in the genocide. The findings of the interviews were published in the two books Into The Quick of Life: The Rwandan Genocide: The Survivors Speak and A Time for Machetes: The Killers Speak.
The Index on Censorship Film Award
Turtles Can Fly by Bahman Ghobadi is a thought-provoking film about two refugees in the region of Kurdistan, whose bodies and souls have been irreparably damaged by Saddam Hussein’s brutal legacy.
The Index on Censorship/Hugo Young Award For Journalism
Sihem Bensedrine is editor of the banned and now secretly published (online) magazine Kalima. Throughout her career she has been harassed and intimidated by officials for highlighting Tunisia’s lack of freedom of expression and was once briefly imprisoned for discussing corruption in an interview for a London-based TV station. On 15 October 2008 the web content of the newspaper was totally destroyed by an attack.
The Index on Censorship Law Award
Beatrice Mtetwa is a prominent media and human rights lawyer who works to defend and protect journalists in Zimbabwe who have been detained and harassed, regardless of regular threats to her personal safety. She has won acquittals for dozens of journalists arrested under Zimbabwe’s repressive media laws.
The Index on Censorship Whistleblower Award
Huang Jingao, a local Communist Party official, generated a national sensation in August 2004 by posting an open letter on a party website. Therein he complained that his efforts to investigate and prosecute corruption were thwarted by high-level party and governmental officials. In 2005, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
15 Mar 2003 | Awards, Awards year slider
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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: defence of freedom of expression; circumvention of censorship; whistleblower of the year; for journalistic integrity and an ironic award for services to censorship.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”85398″ 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=”Tony Kevin” title=”International Whistleblower of the Year” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”85413″]Tony Kevin, who was working for the Australian Foreign Service for 30 years, became famous for exposing the Australian navy’s role in the death of several hundred refugees following the sinking of the SIEV-X (Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel) in 2001.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Al-Jazeera” title=”Best Circumvention of Censorship” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”85411″]The satellite news station Al-Jazeera was honoured for providing news and images that the western media ignored or deemed inappropriate.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Hashem Aghajari ” title=”Most Courageous Defence of Free Expression ” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”85414″]Hashem Aghajari is an Iranian dissident who was sentenced to death in 2002 for blasphemy after he spoke out in public not to ‘blindly follow’ Islamic clerics. After international protests his sentenced was reduced to lifetime in prison. He was freed on bail on 31 July 2004.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Fergal Keane” title=”Outstanding Commitment to Journalistic Integrity” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”38900″]Fergal Keane is an internationally recognised journalist who has reported from some of the world’s major trouble spots from Northern Ireland to Rwanda and is known for his hard-hitting and often moving reports. He was awarded for his coverage of Zimbabwe and his work in general.[/staff][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][staff name=”Jonathan Moyo” title=”Award for Services to Censorship ” color=”#28a7cc” profile_image=”85412″]Jonathan Moyo, in his position as Minister for Information and Publicity of Zimbabwe, was awarded with this ironic award for stifling the media and suppressing free expression.[/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]
1 Mar 2003 | Awards
Most Courageous Defence of Free Expression
Hashem Aghajari is an Iranian dissident who was sentenced to death in 2002 for blasphemy after he spoke out in public not to ‘blindly follow’ Islamic clerics. After international protests his sentence was reduced to life in prison. He was freed on bail on 31 July 2004.
Best Circumvention of Censorship
The Satellite news station Al-Jazeera was honoured for providing news and images that the Western media ignored or deemed inappropriate.
International Whistleblower of the Year
Tony Kevin, who was working for the Australian Foreign Service for 30 years, became famous for exposing the Australian navy’s role in the death of several hundred refugees following the sinking of the SIEV-X (Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel) in 2001.
http://www.tonykevin.com.au/
Outstanding Commitment to Journalistic Integrity
Fergal Keane is an international recognised journalist who has reported from some of the world’s major trouble spots from Northern Ireland to Rwanda and is known for his hard-hitting and often moving reports. He was awarded for his coverage of Zimbabwe and his work in general.
Award for Services to Censorship
Jonathan Moyo, in his position as Minister for Information and Publicity of Zimbabwe, was awarded with this ironic award for stifling the media and suppressing free expression.
