BBC and Guardian scoop Amnesty awards

The BBC and The Guardian scooped awards at the Amnesty International Media Awards ceremony last night.

The awards, held in London, are for excellence in covering stories about human rights abuses.

BBC2’s Olenka Frenkiel won best TV documentary for coverage of the plight of political prisoners in North Korea.

Lucy Ash, of BBC Radio 4, won the radio award category for her reports on dowry-related crime in India.

The Guardian’s James Meek won the national newspaper award for The People The Law Forgot, about Guantanamo Bay prisoners, and the Guardian’s Weekend Magazine scooped an award in the periodicals category for coverage of the same subject.

Lorna Martin, of The Herald newspaper in Glasgow won the regional media award for her story on children asylum seekers.

The Sunday Times Magazine’s Philip Blenkinsop won the photojournalism award for his work about the persecuted Hmong people of Laos and Lindsey Hilsum, of Channel 4 News, won the TV News award for her coverage of Equatorial Guinea.

A special award, in honour of Gaby Rado, the Channel 4 journalist killed in the Iraq conflict, was given to James Astill for his reports on the Democratic Republic of Congo.