I-Unit wins for an investigation into Bangladesh state corruption; AJ English wins for a report on rape as a weapon of war. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit and the Aljazeera.com News Desk have earned top prizes in the eighth annual Amnesty Media Awards honouring the best human rights journalism of the year. The Al Jazeera Digital website, Aljazeera.com, also took top prize in the Written News category for ‘A Tigrayan womb should never give birth’: Rape in Tigray. Published in April 2021, the feature reported a precipitous spike in Tigrayan hospital cases of injuries due to alleged political and sexual violence against Tigrayan women. Winners and shortlisted finalists in other categories included The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Audible UK, BBC News, BBC Storyville, BBC Arabic, ITV, Sky News, BBC News Russia and BBC Digital News.

Source: Ethiopian News May 05, 2022 20:08 UTC