28 Mar
2017
28 Mar
'17
9:52 a.m.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 28, 2017
Contact: Rohit Mahajan 202 530 4976 mahajanr(a)rfa.org
Radio Free Asia Wins Award for In-Depth Web Project on Uyghur Diaspora
WASHINGTON - Radio Free Asia <http://www.rfa.org/about/> (RFA) is among min
magazine's "Best of the Web" award winners and finalists for 2017.
RFA's
"Between Identity and Integration: The Uyghur Diaspora in the West
<http://www.rfa.org/english/news/special/pathtofreedom/> " was selected as
best multimedia feature in this year's international contest. RFA's online
feature "The Wild West: Gold Mining and Its Hazards in Myanmar
<http://www.rfa.org/english/news/special/goldmine/index.html> " was named a
finalist in the same category.
"With this investigative project, RFA interviewed generations of Uyghurs who
left their homeland to resettle and re-establish their lives at unimaginable
costs," said Libby Liu, RFA's President. "It's the stories of these
brave
individuals escaping Chinese repression that are so compelling.
"Credit for this award belongs to RFA's Uyghur, editorial, and graphics
staff for their hard work in realizing this incredible and ambitious
project."
Over the past 60 years, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs from northwest
China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have fled oppression and political
violence at home, seeking refuge in the West. "Between Identity and
Integration" is the first known effort to document the emigration of Uyghurs
from China to Europe and Turkey. RFA shares these individuals' stories
through interviews, in-depth reports, and graphics. Collected in this
investigative project, they tell of the heartbreaking losses, intrepid
escapes, and personal triumphs of Uyghurs who went into exile after the 1949
establishment of Communist Chinese rule, which extinguished hopes of an
independent homeland.
RFA's finalist entry "The Wild West" focuses on the unprecedented
environmental destruction and human toll of rampant industrial gold mining
in Myanmar. With a documentary video and in-depth reports, the special
investigation provides a detailed look at the lives of the mostly young
people driven by poverty to undertake the dangerous and low-paying work in
the Mohnyin district of Myanmar's northern Kachin State.
Other winners in this year's min awards
<http://www.minonline.com/best-of-web-winners-honorees-2017/> include
Bloomberg Media, The Economist, Time Inc., National Geographic Society, and
Hearst Magazines Digital Media.
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Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation broadcasting and
publishing online news, information, and commentary in nine East Asian
languages to listeners who do not have access to full and free news media.
RFA's broadcasts seek to promote the rights of freedom of opinion and
expression, including the freedom to "seek, receive, and impart information
and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." RFA is funded by
an annual grant from the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Rohit Mahajan | Radio Free Asia | Director of Public Affairs and Digital
Strategy
<mailto:mahajanr@rfa.org> mahajanr(a)rfa.org | O: 202.530.4976 | M:
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