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U.S. Press Leaders Call For Immediate Release of AP Photographer Thein Zaw
WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The following is a statement by National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane on the arrest and detention of AP Photographer Thein Zaw in Myanmar: We call on authorities in Myanmar to release, immediately, AP photographer Thein Zaw who was covering a protest Feb. 27 in Yangon when he was arrested. Video shows Thein being surrounded by police and placed in a chokehold before being handcuffed and arrested. We are concerned for his safety. After a Feb. 1 coup by the military in Myanmar…
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Press Club Leaders urge Congress to hold hearings on just-released Khashoggi Report
WASHINGTON – The following is a statement by National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane on the release by the United States government of a long-awaited report on the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi: Ever since his gruesome murder in October 2018, we have called for justice for Jamal Khashoggi. While it has taken far too long to come to public light, we are encouraged by the transparency of the report released today detailing the role of Saudi Arabia as a state sponsor of this murder and…
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U.S. Journalists to Poland’s Leaders: Hands Off Free Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2021-- National Press Club leaders, in a statement Friday, urged Poland’s government to halt a recent campaign to undermine independent news organizations there. The anti-press effort by Poland’s right-wing government follows the lead of a largely completed push in Hungary to ensure its citizens only see state propaganda in print and on their TV and computer screens. The two countries have slipped toward authoritarianism after representing, in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, a source of hope for freedom and democracy in the region as they emerged from under…
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U.S. Press Leaders Urge India to Release Long-Jailed Journalist
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2021--National Press Club leaders spoke out Monday to urge the government of India to release from prison Aasif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist who has been unjustly detained for two and a half years. Sultan, a writer for the Kashmir Narrator, was arrested in August 2018 on an unwarranted charge of harboring militants, although all he had done was interview and write about them. Since he was imprisoned, almost all of his scheduled court dates in his trial have been postponed. His fate remains uncertain. He is at risk of contracting COVID-19 in crowded prison conditions. His…
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U.S. Press Leaders Welcome Egypt’s Overdue Release of Jailed Journalist
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2021--National Press Club leaders expressed relief Saturday at news that al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has been released from prison after four years of unjust detention without trial. The following is a statement from National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane: “Mahmoud Hussein had been held for more than four years without a trial or formal charges. This is outrageous treatment by the government of Egypt. Because Mr. Hussein produced a story in which he interviewed…
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U.S. Journalists Laud Lawmakers’ Efforts for Press Freedom
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2021--America’s leading professional organization for journalists applauded on Thursday efforts by U.S. lawmakers to advance press freedom. Legislation filed in the House Thursday would bar foreign aid for government entities that the U.S. government determines to have egregiously violated journalists’ human rights, and it would require sanctions on individuals who participated in such acts. The bill, named “The Jamal Khashoggi Press Freedom Accountability Act of 2021,” was authored in the House by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. A companion measure was offered in the Senate…
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Press Leaders Decry Assault on Global Media Agency
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2020--National Press Club leaders denounced an attempt by the Trump administration to take away the independence of news outlets such as the Voice of America. Michael Pack, the chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VoA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other news organizations, rescinded on Monday a rule that established a firewall between the agency's journalists and its management—a separation that is standard practice in the media. “This move would explicitly jettison the reportorial independence that has differentiated U.S.-government…
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National Press Club To Unveil Freedom Clock For Austin Tice, August 14
WASHINGTON – July 31 – The National Press Club will mark the anniversary of the abduction and detention of Award-winning journalist and Marine veteran Austin Tice on Friday, August 14 by unveiling a Freedom Clock that will display a dynamic record of the time Austin has been unjustly detained in Syria. The event will take place in the lobby of the Club by the staircase at noon, Aug. 14. Reservations are required for contact tracing reasons. Please email Lindsay Underwood at [email protected] to reserve. The Clock will be in the lobby of the Club which typically hosts 250,000 visitors…
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National Press Club Statement on Death of Civil Rights Leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis
WASHINGTON, July 18 – Following is a statement by National Press Club President Michael Freedman on the death of U.S Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) Our hearts are heavy to learn that one of the great champions of civil rights and social justice, Congressman John Lewis, has passed away. It is, in fact, hard to imagine our world without him. Mr. Lewis was a regular visitor to the National Press Club—including a memorable appearance, along with Andrew Young and Julian Bond, on the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington (below). Congressman Lewis had a special relationship with the press,…
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National Press Club and Journalism Institute call for renewal of VOA journalists’ visas
WASHINGTON -- The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute urge the United States Agency for Global Media and its new executive, Michael Pack, to renew expiring visas for foreign journalists working in the U.S. for Voice of America's international services. According to reports on NPR and in The Washington Post this week, Pack has paused the visa renewals, placing dozens of journalists under a cloud of uncertainty and threatening not only their job security but their personal safety as well. If USAGM decides not to renew these visas, many journalists would be…
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