Reemtsma Liberty Award goes to radio journalist

Reporter Martin Durm has been presented with the 2015 Reemtsma Liberty Award for his coverage of the civil war in Syria.

Now in its ninth year, the award, presented by Imperial Tobacco’s German subsidiary, recognizes foreign correspondents working to sustain freedom of the press under harsh conditions.

The decision to present the award to Durm was made by a jury of prominent German journalists and media experts.

Durm, a journalist with Germany’s SWR2 radio station, won praise from the jury for his feature ‘Syrian Inferno – a civil war escalates’.

The award was presented by German television presenter Ingo Zamperoni at a gala ceremony in Berlin, which included a keynote speech by Luis Moreno Ocampo, the first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.