Awards
Sweeney has won several awards throughout his career, including:
- 1998: What the Papers Say Journalist of the Year prize for reports on human rights abuses in Algeria.
- 2000: an Emmy Award and a Royal Television Society prize for programs about the Massacre at Krusha e Madhe, Kosovo.
- 2001: the Amnesty International prize for "Victims of the Torture Train," about human rights abuses in Chechnya.
- 2003: a Sony Gold award (2003) for Best Radio News program.
- 2004: a Royal Television Society prize (2004) for "Angela's Hope," a BBC One documentary about a woman wrongly convicted of murdering her three babies.
- 2005: The Paul Foot Award.
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