Students of U-Beat, the School’s undergraduate journalistic publication, won four prizes in the 24th Human Rights Press Awards. The winner list is as follows:
Tertiary Student Writing (Chinese)
Winner
Unspoken Wounds: Secret Treatments of Volunteer Doctors
Hu Meng Qi, Lin Ka Man and Li Wai Shan
Merit
Love and Hate on the Other Shore: Interview of Jin Bianling, Wife of 709 Rights Lawyer Jiang Tianyong
Suen Chak Fong Fion and Chan Cho
Defending Rights in the Dark: Volunteer Lawyers in the Anti-Extradition Movement
Ng Chun Chun, Lo Man Lok and Gu Su Ying
Tertiary Student Video & Audio (Chinese)
Merit
Where Have All the Helpers Gone?
Leung Ka Ching, Lo Man Lok, Wong Ho Man and Wong Tin Wing
The awards are jointly organized by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Journalists Association. They were the first such honours created in Asia and are the region’s top awards for human rights-related reporting.
Congratulations to the awardees! The School aims at promoting among our students a strong commitment to professional ethics and social responsibility. We sincerely hope that our students will continue to deliver high quality works in the future.