Radio Netherlands Wins Prestigious International Radio Award for Reporting on Sergei Magnitsky Justice Campaign

June 19, 2012

“Jus­tice for Sergei – A Debt of Hon­our,” a radio inter­view by Radio Nether­lands World­wide with William Brow­der, CEO of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal, on the cam­paign to get jus­tice for his lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky tor­tured to death in Russ­ian police cus­tody (http://www.rnw.nl/english/radioshow/seeking-justice), won the Best Radio Cov­er­age Award at the New York Inter­na­tion­al Radio and Tele­vi­sion Fes­ti­vals last night. 

The inter­view won the gold medal in the “Best Cov­er­age of an On-going News Sto­ry” cat­e­go­ry at the New York Inter­na­tion­al Radio and Tele­vi­sion Fes­ti­vals which had over 200 entries from 30 countries.

NYF’s World’s Best Radio Pro­grams hon­ors radio pro­gram­ming and pro­mo­tions in all lengths and for­mats from radio sta­tions, net­works and inde­pen­dent pro­duc­ers from around the world.

The award-win­ning inter­view with William Brow­der fea­tures the glob­al jus­tice cam­paign for 37-year old whis­tle-blow­ing lawyer killed in Russ­ian gov­ern­ment cus­tody. It goes into detail about how Sergei Mag­nit­sky was effec­tive­ly mur­dered by cor­rupt offi­cials of the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment and how since his mur­der, there has been a state sanc­tioned cov­er-up to pre­vent the per­pe­tra­tors to be brought to justice. 

Intro­duc­ing the inter­view, titled “Jus­tice for Sergei — A Debt of Hon­our,” Radio Nether­lands says:

“William Brow­der man­aged the biggest invest­ment fund in Russ­ian his­to­ry and it was stolen from him by cor­rupt gov­ern­ment offi­cials. The lawyer for his firm, Sergei Mag­nit­sky, was impris­oned, tor­tured, and died after one year in cus­tody. Now William is tak­ing up the fight in hon­our of Sergei’s belief that jus­tice will even­tu­al­ly prevail.”

The “Jus­tice for Sergei – A Debt of Hon­our” inter­view was aired as part of “The State We’re In” pro­gram by Radio Nether­lands last year, and was since broad­cast on dozens of radio net­works around the world.

Greg Kel­ly, edi­tor of the Radio Netherland’s “The State We’re In”, says the inter­view gar­nered an over­whelm­ing feed­back from the audience. 

“Our lis­ten­ers let us know what they felt in emails, let­ters, Face­book post­ings, tweets: a pro­found sense of sad­ness and out­rage that the per­pe­tra­tors got away with – or think they have – for the killing of Sergei and the theft of hun­dreds mil­lions of tax dol­lars belong­ing to the Russ­ian people.” 

Com­ment­ing on the “Jus­tice for Sergei” inter­view win­ning the NYF’s Best Radio Cov­er­age Award, Greg Kel­ly said:

“This award is not just a pat on the back for our radio pro­gram. And it’s more than a tes­ta­ment to William Brow­der’s deter­mi­na­tion and courage. It’s a reaf­fir­ma­tion that Sergei Mag­nit­sky’s quest for jus­tice con­tin­ues in the face of sys­temic cor­rup­tion and abuse of pow­er in Rus­sia. His sto­ry isn’t over yet.”

“This is a sto­ry these author­i­ties would like to see go away. This inter­view helps ensure that that won’t hap­pen, and that the quest to get jus­tice for Sergei will not cease until jus­tice is done,” added Greg Kel­ly from Radio Netherlands.

Radio Nether­lands is one of the worlds’ top five inter­na­tion­al pub­lic broad­cast­ing orga­ni­za­tions which reach­es mil­lions of peo­ple around the world. 

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