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Free Austin Tice
Austin Tice is a Marine combat veteran, a seventh-generation Texan from Houston, a graduate of Georgetown University, and an award-winning journalist who has been unjustly detained in Syria since 2012. After seeing reports of the refugee crisis unfolding in Syria, Austin picked up his camera and headed straight to the front lines as a freelance reporter. He delivered important dispatches to The Washington Post and McClatchy before he was detained at a checkpoint near Damascus on August 14, 2012. Austin has endured the longest detention of any U.S. journalist to date.
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Representative Al Green (TX-09) share their thoughts on constituent Austin Tice, a photojournalist who has been held captive in Syria since 2012, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2023.
Conversation between Debra Tice and Christophe Deloire
The National Press Club Press Freedom Team hosted a news conference with Debra Tice, mother of award winning journalist Austin Tice who has been held in Syria since 2012, and Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of RSF (Reporters Without Borders). They discussed the role of press freedom in democracy and the case of Austin Tice in that context and answered questions from the press.
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