Guardian journalist wins award for Iranian protest coverage

Saeed Kamali Dehghan from Iran has been named the journalist of the year at the Foreign Press Awards
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Saeed Kamali Dehghan made a film about the life and death of Neda Agha-Soltan, who was killed in the protests after the 2009 elections in Iran. Photograph: Guardian Photograph: Guardian

Iranian journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan, who writes regularly for the Guardian, has been named as journalist of the year at the Foreign Press Association awards. Following the disputed Iranian presidential election in 2009, Dehghan covered the mass protests from Tehran for the Guardian.

He subsequently made a film for HBO with Anthony Thomas about the life and death of Iranian protestor Neda Agha-Soltan, which won the TV Feature/Documentary category in this year's FPA awards. Thomas and Dehghan jointly won the top prize of journalist of the year.