WASHINGTON The US National Press Club called on Indian authorities Monday to release a Kashmiri journalist who has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ 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 representatives of both political parties in Egypt, he was accused of being part of the Muslim Brotherhood (one of the parties). This was not the case. Interviewing a member of a political party does not mean a journalist is part of that party. Not interviewing both parties might mean that the person is not acting as a journalist. Journalism is not
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ 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 last year by Democratic Sens. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian
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Press Leaders Urge Extradition for Daniel Pearl s Kidnappers
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ National Press Club leaders expressed concern about the Pakistan Supreme Court s exoneration on Thursday of four men accused of luring Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to his beheading in 2002.
Pearl s murder, which was videotaped, shocked the world and was soon followed by Islamic State terrorists filming the gruesome killing of several captives. The National Press Club honored Pearl posthumously with its John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award in 2002.
Press Leaders Urge Extradition for Daniel Pearl’s Kidnappers
The four men were convicted in 2002 of kidnapping and murder. One of the men British national Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was sentenced to death.