2022 International Emmys for News & Current Affairs Awarded

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has awarded programs about the January 6 insurrection and an exonerated Guantanamo prisoner with the International Emmys for news and current affairs.

The news award went to ITV News: Storming of The Capitol (ITV News/ITN, U.K.). The ITV News team was embedded in the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and captured the action from the heart of the crowd.

The current affairs award was given to Slahi und seine Folterer (In Search of Monsters; Hoferichter & Jacobs/NDR/RBB/MDR/ARTE, Germany). For 14 years, Mohamedou Slahi was incarcerated in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo and was considered one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world. He has since been set free and exonerated by two U.S. courts.

“The International Emmy gives us an opportunity to reward quality in television from around the world, even, as in this case, [when] the subject matter of the programs produced in the U.K. and Germany are events in the United States,” said Bruce Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.