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Owen Fung

The South China Morning Post scooped four prizes on Friday night at Hong Kong’s 20th Human Rights Press Awards.
City news reporter Jeffie Lam won the English features merit prize for her article, “Elderly bussed in for district election vote”.
Senior writer Verna Yu’s series titled “Crackdown on Chinese rights lawyers” won the English features merit.
Post photographers Dickson Lee and Sam Tsang each grabbed a spot news photography merit for their images, “The lonely life of the McSleepers” and “Disputed land”, respectively.
The Hong Kong Journalists Association received 278 submissions this year, including more than 100 entries in the Chinese category, 80 in English and 55 in the photojournalism category.
Robyn Kilpatrick, a co-founder of the awards, said she was impressed by the entries.
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“Hong Kong press, despite working under sometimes quite difficult situations ... should be proud of the work,” she said.
Founded in 1996 by Amnesty International Hong Kong, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and the Journalists Association, the awards are aimed at encouraging the media to produce more reports on human rights issues, as well as to educate the public.
Angela Lee Ngar-kam, another co-founder of the awards who has served as a judge since its inception, said when they first started the programme most submissions were about street protests for civil and political rights.
But since then, Lee said, the media’s understanding of human rights had developed and they now receive entries that cover an increasingly broad range of issues, such as sexual minorities and asylum seekers.
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“Marginalised communities and groups need the media [to tell their stories] and monitor the government and identify loopholes in the system,” she said.
Mabel Au Mei-po, director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, called on the government to step up human rights and civic education, saying it was vital for the city’s development.
“The government has failed to broaden the discussion on [human rights], and so everyone is only focused on election methods. But when we talk about democratisation, it doesn’t only concern elections,” she said.


SCMP scoops four prizes at Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards

Post photographer Dickson Lee, Verna Yu (centre) and Jeffie Lam with their awards. Photo: Felix Wong

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Recognition for reporters Jeffie Lam and Verna Yu and photographers Dickson Lee and Sam Tsang


SCMP scoops four prizes at Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards

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Recognition for reporters Jeffie Lam and Verna Yu and photographers Dickson Lee and Sam Tsang