[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1485793747082{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARDS 2003″ font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1485792707295{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1485877361951{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]

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]