[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
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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]
