Middle East Eye journalist refused entry to UK for awards ceremony

Middle East Eye journalist refused entry to UK for awards ceremony Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:01 Mohammed Amin had been short-listed by One World Awards for his reporting on the war in Sudan, including the bloody siege of el-Fasher Mohammed Amin collects the Martin Adler Prize at the Rory Peck Awards on London's Southbank in November 2022 (Rory Peck Awards) Off MEE correspondent Mohammed Amin has been refused a visa to travel to the UK and attend a prestigious journalism awards ceremony in London this week. Amin was due to be present at the One World Media Awards , to be held next Wednesday, where he has been nominated for the Journalist of the Year Award for his reporting from Sudan . But on Thursday he was told by the Home Office that his application for an eight-day visa had been refused because it believed he did not have a genuine reason for coming to the UK and that he would not leave the country afterwards.