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National Press Club announces Emilio Gutiérrez's release in victory for press freedom
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 26 agreed to free journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, ending a nearly eight-month ordeal for the National Press Club Press Freedom award winner. Gutiérrez's release from a detention facility in El Paso, Texas, will allow him to embark on a Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan as he continues to press his case for asylum in the United States. The legal battle to secure his release galvanized 19 professional-journalism organizations and human-rights groups on behalf of the Mexican reporter, who sought asylum in…
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Groundbreaking decision for asylum-seekers gives National Press Club award winner his day in court
A federal judge is challenging the government’s detention of a National Press Club award-winner, saying there is “enough evidence” to suggest that immigration officials violated the First Amendment rights of Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto and his son, Oscar. In a 26-page order filed Tuesday, Judge David Guaderrama of El Paso cited constitutional protections of free speech and press freedom in raising concerns about immigration officials’ treatment of Gutiérrez, who entered the country legally 10 years ago seeking asylum after his reporting on official corruption in his home country…
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National Press Club calls for release of award-winning Egyptian journalist
Contact: Kathy Kiely, National Press Club Journalism Institute Press Freedom Fellow, [email protected] UPDATE 6/27: The National Press Foundation has signed onto this letter. WASHINGTON, June 26 —The National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute, along with the Committee to Protect Journalists and more than 20 professional journalism and human rights organizations, on Tuesday urged U.S. officials to help secure the immediate and unconditional release of Mahmoud Abou Zeid, an Egyptian photojournalist who works under the name Shawkan. Arrested nearly five years ago while taking…
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Press and free speech groups question raid on reporter's records
Following the Justice Department’s seizure of a reporter’s phone and email communications without prior notice, The National Press Club, PEN America and more than a dozen other leading organizations representing professional journalists and free speech advocates are demanding an explanation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “This intrusion is particularly troubling because it relates to reporting concerning alleged misdeeds by the president's campaign, raising questions about whether the content of the reporting is what occasioned this unusual level of scrutiny,” the groups write in a…
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National Press Club, reporters’ groups decry seizure of NYT reporter’s records
Following reports that the Justice Department seized telephone and electronic communication records of a New York Times reporter, leaders of the National Press Club and several professional journalism organizations plan to invite Attorney General Jeff Sessions to meet about the dangers such investigative techniques pose to a free press and the democracy that depends upon it. Members of the working press are not the only Americans who should be alarmed that federal investigators gained access to years of communications between a reporter and her sources, the press groups warned Friday. “The…
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National Press Club unveils plan for media summit after reporter roughed up at EPA meeting
The National Press Club and its Journalism Institute are renewing a call for dialogue between newsmakers and the news media following another incident in which officials of President Donald Trump’s administration manhandled a reporter in a public building. Hours after one of its reporters was blocked from covering a summit on water contamination, along with representatives of several other news organizations, the Associated Press reported receiving an apology Tuesday from the Environmental Protection Agency. According to the AP's account, guards had barred the wire service's reporter from…
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National Press Club award-winner Emilio Gutiérrez wins new asylum hearing
The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has ordered a new asylum hearing for Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, saying a judge needs to consider “additional evidence” supporting the National Press Club Freedom of the Press award winner’s case. The BIA ruling, handed down last week, means the jailed journalist is, for the moment, safe from deportation. Attorneys for the Gutiérrezes and the Press Club now plan to renew their request that Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities free Gutiérrez and his son, Oscar, from the Texas detention facility where they have been held…
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National Press Club, Journalism Institute deplore Saudi attempts to muzzle free press
On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that Saudi Arabia is making the shutdown of the global news service al Jazeera a condition for lifting a trade and economic embargo that the Saudis and their allies have imposed on Qatar. Al Jazeera is headquartered in Qatar. We urge the U.S. State Department, which is attempting to mediate this regional dispute, to reject this outrageous demand, now confirmed by multiple news outlets. It is antithetical to the human right of free speech enshrined in the First Amendment of our Constitution. Newsmakers should not be in the business of picking which…
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National Press Club, Journalism Institute say 'No' to Senate press gatekeeper
The following statement was released yesterday by the National Press Club and its Journalism Institute: Of all the assaults on press freedom we have experienced this year one of the most disheartening is the one that happened today in the place we least expected it. The U.S. Capitol is the People’s House and for most of its existence, those who work there have been proud of that fact and have worked hard to keep it that way. One of the boldest statements about the openness of American society was when congressional leaders insisted on reopening the Capitol the day after the 9/11 terror…
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An open letter to FCC Chair Ajit Pai
The National Press Club and its Journalism Institute today sent the following letter to Federal Communication Commission Chair Ajit V. Pai as an invitation — and a response to the letter he has sent members of the U.S. Senate regarding the May 18th incident at the FCC:
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