http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/ ... ner-award/

CNN Wins IRE's Tom Renner Award

Recognizing the most outstanding watchdog journalism of the year, the Investigative Reporters and Editors awarded CNN with the 2011 Tom Renner award for its documentary, "Death in the Desert."

Fronted by CNN's Berlin-based correspondent Fred Pleitgen, "Death in the Desert" uncovered horrific evidence confirming some refugees – mostly from Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia – journeying to Israel had their organs harvested before being buried in the desert. This documentary aired as a part of the CNN Freedom Project, the multi-platform initiative launched last year to shine a spotlight on modern-day slavery.

Judges' Comments:
CNN’s team faced great personal risk in crossing the dangerous badlands of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to expose a network of human trafficking and organ sales in “Death in the Desert.” The team managed to persuade the hostile, clannish Bedouin tribesmen of the region to talk about their organized kidnapping for ransom and trafficking in African immigrants trying to cross from Egypt into Israel. The team also procured photographic evidence, reviewed by coroners, that suggested some immigrants had their organs harvested before being buried in the desert. The final scene of nameless immigrants buried in unmarked graves almost within sight of their final destination in Israel provided an emotional finish to a dramatic, difficult and important story.

Awash/Nostalgia,
why didn't you post the whole article instead of only the link ? I think I know why.


CNN Wins IRE's Tom Renner Award

Recognizing the most outstanding watchdog journalism of the year, the Investigative Reporters and Editors awarded CNN with the 2011 Tom Renner award for its documentary, "Death in the Desert."

Fronted by CNN's Berlin-based correspondent Fred Pleitgen, "Death in the Desert" uncovered horrific evidence confirming some refugees – mostly from Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia – journeying to Israel had their organs harvested before being buried in the desert. This documentary aired as a part of the CNN Freedom Project, the multi-platform initiative launched last year to shine a spotlight on modern-day slavery.

Judges' Comments:
CNN’s team faced great personal risk in crossing the dangerous badlands of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to expose a network of human trafficking and organ sales in “Death in the Desert.” The team managed to persuade the hostile, clannish Bedouin tribesmen of the region to talk about their organized kidnapping for ransom and trafficking in African immigrants trying to cross from Egypt into Israel. The team also procured photographic evidence, reviewed by coroners, that suggested some immigrants had their organs harvested before being buried in the desert. The final scene of nameless immigrants buried in unmarked graves almost within sight of their final destination in Israel provided an emotional finish to a dramatic, difficult and important story.

Go here to see the IRE's official press release announcing the winners and finalists in the 2011 IRE Awards.

revolutions,
You're sick. This is a human tragedy.

Tell CNN to investigate what is going on with the corpses of its own dead citizens instead. There are more dead American body parts sold in comparison to the whole world combined, by burrying empty caskets to make it believe to the survival families.
I know, I know, you are going to tell me, but that the Bedewins are taking the parts from alive bodies. LOL. But I believe shooting and killing one another in drug related death is equal to killing a person to take an organ. Sh**t, there are even more death happen in car accidents in the USA in one day, than there are natural death in a month in China or North Korea. Death is death, no matter how it occurs. And believe me, there are more drug related deaths than there are Bedewin body part snatching deaths.
When are you going to get it in your thick skulls, that any bad news, especailly about countries they do not like is always exagerated by the American and their counterparts nations media outlets to act as if like they are saints, when they are the cause of all the miseries this world is witnessing?
These are the nations which legally approve prostitution in their lands and acuse the talibans and the Arabs for respecting their women and wants them to stay home so that they can provide them with their needs. Why is putting your lady in a pedestal a sin, if that is what your lady wants?
These are the nations, who have drug addicted and drug pushers in every corner of their streets, and instead of fighting it in their own domain, they rather go to Afganistan and tell the Afgans to stop producing puppies.
These are the same nations, who are armed with nukes to the teeth and they do not want any other nation to aquire them.
These are the same nations, who have more inmates in jail than the whole population of Kenya and accuse if the countries they do not like put their criminals in their jails, by telling the world they are political opponents, just to further thie own agendas
Give me a freaking break. We the people of the world did not hire them to police us.
This world will be f**ed up for eternity unless it produces Wedi Afom like leaders.
The award ceremonies which are going towards each other are just jokes and you stupid people are falling for it.
These imperialist countries and their journalists should stay out of the rest of the world and mind and report on their own internal affairs. Let the world live the way it sees it fit and if time comes that they do not want to live that way, let the people of those countries change it from with in.
Other than that, It is like you are letting some one coming to your home and dictate you how you eat, sleep, drink, sh**t, while he is sitting in your own home laughing at your arse and stupidity.
Thanks to God (expression of speech for I do not even believe in the existance of the so called God), that we the Eritreans do not let them play that game in our domain.