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Freelancer Austin Tice, detained in Syria, to receive Aubuchon Press Freedom Award
American freelance reporter Austin Tice, detained in Syria since 2012, will receive one of the club's most prestigious honors. The club will give Tice a John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award at its annual awards dinner July 29. The Aubuchon award recognizes those whose work has demonstrated the courage that lies at the heart of a free press. Tice joins Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter detained in Iran, as recipients of the Club's domestic freedom of the press award this year. The club announced Rezaian's award on March 12. The Club also recognizes a foreign journalist annually. Tice, a…
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National Press Club Protests Subpoenaing of Indiana Reporter
The National Press Club strongly protested on Monday an Indiana prosecutor’s subpoenaing of a newspaper reporter and her notes and recordings. The Elkhart County chief deputy prosecutor issued an order on April 8 for Elkhart Truth crime and courts reporter Emily Pfund to testify at a hearing, scheduled for Monday, and to surrender her notes and recordings from interviews with, or relating to, Freddie Rhodes, according to an Elkhart Truth report. Rhodes is accused of felony murder, charges that stemmed from a 2014 alleged attempted drug robbery, though he is not accused of committing the…
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National Press Club President John Hughes issues statement on Jason Rezaian after Iran agreement
The following statement from National Press Club President John Hughes on Jason Rezaian, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief who has been held in prison in Iran since July 22, 2014. "With the nuclear talks with Iran now adjourned and producing a framework agreement, leaders in that country must now turn their immediate attention to freeing Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian from prison in Tehran. As we said when we recognized Jason with one of our most prestigious awards last month, we will raise our voices again and again until he is free. Jason has been in jail for more than eight…
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National Press Club calls on Nigerian authorities to release journalists
The National Press Club urged the Nigerian government today to immediately release two Al Jazeera journalists who have been detained since March 24 for allegedly reporting on Boko Haram without "clearance." Reporter Ahmed Idris and producer Ali Mustafa were held in their hotel room after returning from covering Nigerian troops fighting Boko Haram in Borno State. While military authorities said the two reporters were "operating without protection, accreditation or due clearance,” Al Jazeera stated the journalists were reporting with the cooperation of the military as part of the agency's…
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National Press Club Questions Egyptian President's Accusations on Jailed Journalists
The National Press Club questioned the veracity of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's recent accusation that two Al Jazeera journalists who were imprisoned in his country were "activists." "The Al Jazeera English journalists who were jailed for months in Egypt were simply doing their jobs," said John Hughes, president of the National Press Club. "Tarring them as something other than objective observers is unfair and inaccurate. But it's typical of the kind of canard that dictators use to suppress reporting they don't like." The two Al Jazeera English journalists, Mohammed Fahmy and…
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National Press Club deplores Islamic State murders of journalists
The National Press Club expressed outrage Tuesday at reports that the Islamic State militant group has killed a second journalist, the second in two days. According to Reporters Without Borders, Mohanad Al-Aqidi, the Sada news agency’s Mosul correspondent, was murdered Oct. 13 by several gun shots to the head. Two days before, the Islamic State had publicly beheaded Raad Mohamed Al-Azaoui, a cameraman for Sama Salah Aldeen TV, in Samara. "It's is unacceptable and unspeakable that this group has committed two heinous crimes in the space of a week," said NPC President Myron Belkind. "We are…
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Egyptian reporter, National Press Club urge release of Cairo's jailed journalists
A reporter whom Egyptian authorities had imprisoned without charge for 10 months has issued a video statement at the National Press Club urging the government in Cairo to release at least 11 other journalists who are still in jail. Abdullah Elshamy, a reporter for Al Jazeera Arabic, was imprisoned from August 2013 until June 2014. During his incarceration, he was on a hunger strike for about half a year, and he lost about a third of his body weight. Elshamy was released on medical grounds. But three other Al Jazeera reporters remain in prison in Egypt: Australian Peter Greste and Egyptians…
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National Press Club mourns death of photojournalist in Ukraine
The National Press Club president expressed sadness on Thursday at news that a Russian photojournalist had been found dead in Ukraine. Andrei Stenin, who worked for the state-run Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya, had been missing since Aug. 5. His employer said in a statement today that he was found dead in a car. The circumstances of his death are not completely clear. "Andrei Stenin worked for a Russian state-run news organization, but he was not a combatant," said NPC President Myron Belkind. "Too many reporters are being treated as if they are belligerents in the world's conflicts…
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National Press Club statement calls Sotloff execution 'abhorrent'
The National Press Club condemns the execution of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff, who was being held by the terrorist organization Islamist State. Sotloff was a freelancer for Foreign Policy and Time magazine, among other outlets. He is thought to have been kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State fighters in August 2013. Sotloff was last seen in a video released Aug. 19 of the execution of American freelancer James Foley at the hands of an Islamic State militant. In a new video released on Tuesday by Islamic State, the executioner claims to be the same man who murdered Foley. "We condemn in the…
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National Press Club applauds Afghanistan candidates for statements on expelled reporter
The National Press Club president thanked the two candidates vying to become Afghanistan's next president for separately pledging to rescind the current government's expulsion of New York Times reporter Matt Rosenberg. Afghan officials ordered Rosenberg on Aug. 20 to leave the country and not return, and he left the following day. The order came after the officials, from the Afghan attorney general's office, had questioned Rosenberg about a story he wrote that was first published Aug. 18 about a potential coup brewing in Kabul. Rosenberg later said the officials had demanded that he disclose…
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