Emmys 2014: Russia Today has been nominated for Guantanamo hunger strike coverage

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RT has been nominated for a prestigious International Emmy award for its groundbreaking coverage of the six-month-long mass hunger strike by inmates at Guantanamo Bay.

In its investigation, the channel helped to bring the daily brutality suffered by inmates to millions of viewers across the globe, keeping the scandal in the headlines when many in the mainstream media ignored or downplayed the story. In May 2013, President Barack Obama promised to begin letting go prisoners who were cleared for release in January 2010. However, since that promise made over 440 days ago, only 17 of the 86 have been allowed to leave.

“We are really happy and proud that we have managed to be nominated for such a prestigious award for a third time,” said RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan. “The project about Guantanamo became one of the most important investigations last year in television because the mainstream mass media did not cover this topic very much. We believe we will win.”