National Press Club to Make Announcement on the Case of Jailed Journalist
Mar 6 2018
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Mar 6, 2018 at 2:00pm
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Zenger Room
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Livestream will begin 3/6 at 2:00pm ET.
The National Press Club will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 6 to discuss a new development in the case of jailed Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto.
Gutierrez, whose reporting in his home country made him a target of death threats, accepted the Club's John Aubuchon Press Freedom award o behalf of Mexico's journalists in October. Two months later, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement threatened to deport him. When the Board of Immigration Appeals stayed that action, ICE took Gutierrez and his son into custody.
The National Press Club, along with nearly two dozen other professional press organizations and a number of newspaper editorial boards, are calling on the U.S. government to release the Gutierrezes and to grant them asylum.