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National Press Club, Journalism Institute call for release of Mexican journalist
The National Press Club and its Journalism Institute are calling on the Department of Homeland Security to release Martín Méndez Pineda, a Mexican journalist who has been imprisoned for the last two months after seeking asylum in the United States. “The jailing of this brave reporter amounts to punishing someone for having followed all of our immigration rules,” said Club President Jeff Ballou. Méndez recently turned 26 in an El Paso, Texas, detention facility. For the previous three years, he had been a reporter covering official corruption for Novedades Acapulco, an Acapulco daily. In the…
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National Press Club, Journalism Institute propose Trump-Xi competition
As the presidents of the United States and China hold face-to-face meetings April 6 and 7, much attention is expected to be focused on points of contention between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The National Press Club and its Journalism Institute however are more concerned with what the two leaders have in common. China is one of the world’s most notorious violators of the basic human right to freedom of speech. According to Freedom House, its record of harassing journalists, dissidents and users of the internet has gotten worse as Xi has erected what Reporters…
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National Press Club and NPC Journalism Institute to Egyptian President: Free Shawkan
As Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi visits the White House on Monday for a meeting with President Donald Trump, the National Press Club and its Journalism Institute call on Egypt to release the club's 2017 Press Freedom award winner, Mahmoud Abou Zeid, a photojournalist who works under the name Shawkan. Shawkan was arrested in 2013 for documenting violence by Egyptian security forces during street protests there. According to Amnesty International, he has been held for more than two years - in violation of Egyptian law - and has been denied medication for a serious medical condition,…
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As Turkish foreign minister visits, National Press Club and its Journalism Institute call on Turkey to free journalists
The foreign minister of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, appeared Tuesday, March 21 at the National Press Club for a privately organized event. Access to his speech and subsequent press conference was controlled by the event sponsors. The National Press Club is proud of our history providing a forum for reporters and newsmakers to meet, and pleased that foreign leaders come through our doors to answer the questions of journalists from across the globe who cover Washington. But on this occasion, we feel compelled to note a glaring irony: The foreign minister's appearance at our club, a place…
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NPC protests White House blackballing of news organizations
Leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute expressed shock Friday about the White House press secretary’s decision to keep several news organizations which have written critical stories about President Trump out of one of his briefings. The White House Correspondents Association has protested the move. National Press Club President Jeffrey Ballou issued the following statement: I find it deeply disturbing and completely unacceptable that the White House is actively running a campaign against a constitutionally enshrined free and independent press. That…
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National Press Club Announces that University of Michigan Awards Journalism Fellowship to Jailed Reporter
Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, a Mexican journalist whom U.S. immigration officials are attempting to deport despite death threats against him in his home country, has been awarded a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Lynette Clemetson, executive director of the prestigious journalism program, announced the honor Thursday at the National Press Club, where she participated on a panel to mark World Press Freedom Day. Gutiérrez is a 2017 winner of the National Press Club’s John Aubuchon Press Freedom award. If U.S. authorities allow him to accept the Knight-Wallace offer, Gutiérrez…
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National Press Club Statement On Deaths of Journalists in Afghanistan
Following is a statement by National Press Club President Andrea Edney on the deaths of journalists today in Afghanistan. "We were angered and saddened by the news from Afghanistan today that at least nine of our colleagues were killed in a bombing in Kabul. This is a tragic reminder of the real risks journalists take when they are working in the field. It is reported some journalists were drawn to the site to cover the first explosion and were injured in the second. Among the journalists killed were Shah Marai a photographer from AFP and Abdullah Hawazai,28, from Radio Free Europe. In a…
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National Press Club: Homeland Security wants court to ignore journalism groups, evidence in asylum case
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants the Board of Immigration Appeals to dismiss 500 pages of evidence presented by The National Press Club and 16 other professional journalism organizations in the asylum case of Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, an award-winning Mexican journalist. In a brief filed before the board — which earlier accepted the Press Club petition to allow it and the other journalism groups to enter the Gutiérrez case as "friends of the court" — DHS argues that the board should throw out extensive documentation the Club provided of Gutiérrez's work as an investigative reporter…
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National Press Club and 19 press organizations join legal effort to free award-winning journalist from detention
The National Press Club, joined by 19 professional journalism organizations, on Monday asked a federal court to order the release of award-winning journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto and his son, Oscar, from an El Paso detention center where Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have detained them for more than four months. “There is no basis, in law or basic human decency, for the treatment that Emilio and Oscar Gutiérrez-Soto have received at the hands of ICE,” the Club said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed before the U.S. district court in the Western District of Texas. “Emilio is…
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Board of Immigration Appeals accepts Press Club brief in support of Mexican journalist's asylum case
The Board of Immigration Appeals has agreed to allow the National Press Club and 16 other professional journalism organizations to intervene on behalf of a Mexican journalist who is seeking asylum in the United States. In a March 27 letter, the Board said it is accepting a 37-page “friend-of-the-court“ brief filed by the press groups in the asylum appeal case of Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto. Months after winning the National Press Club Press Freedom award, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials took Gutiérrez and his son into custody. ICE wants to deport them to Mexico, a country the two…
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