A team of Syrian citizen journalists fighting Isis and the Assad regime by reporting on the atrocities carried out in the besieged city of Raqqa were honoured with a standing ovation at the British Journalism Awards.

One of the members of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) collected the Marie Colvin Award – named in honour of the Sunday Times foreign correspondent who was killed in 2012 – on behalf of the group at the ceremony in Stationers’ Hall, London, last night.

Abdalaziz Alhamza, told the crowd of British journalism’s best and brightest that he was collecting the award “on behalf of my colleagues of RBSS, those of whom are still alive, those who are in exile, and in memory of those who have fallen by the hands of the death cult known as ISIS”.