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Conversation between Debra Tice and Christophe Deloire
The National Press Club Press Freedom Team hosted a news conference with Debra Tice, mother of award winning journalist Austin Tice who has been held in Syria since 2012, and Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of RSF (Reporters Without Borders). They discussed the role of press freedom in democracy and the case of Austin Tice in that context and answered questions from the press.
From The Washington Post
Opinion: Austin Tice is turning 40. Can this president finally bring him home? Opinion by Fred Ryan August 10, 2021 Aug. 11, 2012, seems like ages ago. President Barack Obama was in his first term, campaigning for reelection against Mitt Romney. Donald Trump was hosting “The Celebrity Apprentice,” and 15-year-old Simone Biles was a year away from making her international gymnastics debut. TikTok didn’t exist. Jorge Bergoglio was a cardinal in Buenos Aires, and few had ever heard the word “coronavirus.” It was the last birthday Austin Tice celebrated as a free man.
Free Austin Tice
Austin Tice is a Marine combat veteran, a seventh-generation Texan from Houston, a graduate of Georgetown University, and an award-winning journalist who has been unjustly detained in Syria since 2012. After seeing reports of the refugee crisis unfolding in Syria, Austin picked up his camera and headed straight to the front lines as a freelance reporter. He delivered important dispatches to The Washington Post and McClatchy before he was detained at a checkpoint near Damascus on August 14, 2012. Austin has endured the longest detention of any U.S. journalist to date.
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Exiled Afghan reporter talks about power of good journalism
In honor of World Press Freedom Day today, members of the National Press Club’s Press Freedom Team interviewed journalists in exile from around the world. We are sharing their to shed light on press-freedom issues worldwide. As a young female in Afghanistan, forced with her family early on to relocate to Iran when the Taliban took power in the 1990's, Zahra Nader knows firsthand the personal and societal impact of policies that essentially deny women the right to learn. “For my entire childhood, I longed for the education that I couldn’t get,” she says. Once the Taliban rule collapsed, she…
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Exiled journalists share firsthand accounts of navigating asylum, work abroad during virtual panel, May 4
As part of the Club’s extended World Press Freedom Day activities, the National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee and the Journalism Institute are hosting an online panel discussion from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 4, to highlight cases of exiled journalists from around the world. Join us to hear what life has been like for a few of these exiled journalists since they made the decision to pursue life and freedom abroad. Registration is free and open. The reasons an increasing number of foreign journalists decide to flee their home countries vary — from government crackdowns…
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Debra Tice cites U.S. unwillingness to listen to Syria in effort to free Austin
A year after President Joe Biden ordered White House national security staff to engage with Syria to free award-winning journalist Austin Tice, his mother is still waiting for results. “The president gave the directive May 2, 2022,” Debra Tice said at a National Press Club news conference Tuesday. “Do we have movement? Is he the most powerful man on earth? Do people do what he says to do? Does his staff do what he says to do?” Although a recent report in a Syrian publication indicated that there were meetings between the U.S. government and the governments of Syria and Oman, Tice is not sure…
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