User:Media-hound- thethird/sandbox Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2001

__NOINDEX__ The 10th awards were held at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA, on 10 July 2001. The ceremony was hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy.

In total 8 awards were made in the categories of Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, National Print, Periodicals, Photojournalism, Radio, Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat, Television Documentary and Television News.

Richard Bunting, of Amnesty International UK said, "Without the powerful and often difficult journalism of these award-winners the world would know less about human rights abuse, perpetrators might stand to walk free and victims only seek justice in vain. The journalist's role is enormously important."

The judges for the categories of National Print, Periodicals, Photojournalism, Radio, Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat, Television Documentary and Television News were Mariella Frostrup, Shiulie Ghosh, Maya Jaggi, Richard Lindley, Indarjit Singh], [[Gillian Slovo, Edward Stourton, Paul Wombel, Neil Burgess, and Richard Bunting.

The ″Special Award For Human Rights Journalism Under Threat″ was awarded to Sihem Bensedrine of Tunisia who was at the time of the awards in prison for speaking out against the Tunisian government under president Ben Ali.

The ″Global Award For Human Rights Journalism″ was awarded to Anna Politkovskaya for her coverage of events in Chechnya, where Russian troops held Chechen prisoners for ransom.

Judges for the ″Global Award for Human Rights Journalism″ were Mark Chavunduka, Ariel Dorfman, Hina Jilani, Mark Lattimer, and Rana Husseini.