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Photo-shoot today at National Press Club: The Austin Tice hostage case, 13 years later. New developments in the Austin Tice case for the past year, from government, media, and intelligence sources.
More photos: https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Press-Club-events/Austin-Tice-held-13-years
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Photo-shoot today at National Press Club: The Austin Tice hostage case, 13 years later. New developments in the Austin Tice case for the past year, from government, media, and intelligence sources.
More photos: https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Press-Club-events/Austin-Tice-held-13-years
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Today marks 13 years since Houston freelance journalist and former U.S. Marine Austin Tice was abducted in Syria. His mother told the National Press Club, "My son is not dead. ... He is alive, and we will find him."
#Houston #International #Local #News #AustinTice #DebraTice #PresidentBasharAlAssad #SyrianCivilWar #TrumpAdministration
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Today marks 13 years since Houston freelance journalist and former U.S. Marine Austin Tice was abducted in Syria. His mother told the National Press Club, "My son is not dead. ... He is alive, and we will find him."
#Houston #International #Local #News #AustinTice #DebraTice #PresidentBasharAlAssad #SyrianCivilWar #TrumpAdministration
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A doctor close to #BassamHassan has also acknowledged treating #AustinTice.
Early in #Syria’s civil war, Hassan worked w/ #Iran to help establish a paramilitary force known as the National Defense Forces [#NDF], which received funding & training from Tehran. The NDF…was modeled after Iran’s #Basij, a plainclothes #militia under the umbrella of the Revolutionary Guards [#IRGC].
The BBC reported that Tice had been held by the NDF at one point.
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A doctor close to #BassamHassan has also acknowledged treating #AustinTice.
Early in #Syria’s civil war, Hassan worked w/ #Iran to help establish a paramilitary force known as the National Defense Forces [#NDF], which received funding & training from Tehran. The NDF…was modeled after Iran’s #Basij, a plainclothes #militia under the umbrella of the Revolutionary Guards [#IRGC].
The BBC reported that Tice had been held by the NDF at one point.
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It was the best piece of evidence…that #Syria had…been holding #AustinTice, despite never acknowledging…[it] & failing to respond to diplomatic efforts to free him.
This month, BBC News reported it had obtained a trove of #intelligence files that showed he had been held in prison in Damascus. In interviews, a fmr Syrian general, Safwan Bahloul, said he had interrogated Tice, the first time any Syrian ofcl had disclosed having had contact w/ him.
#Assad #WarCrimes
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It was the best piece of evidence…that #Syria had…been holding #AustinTice, despite never acknowledging…[it] & failing to respond to diplomatic efforts to free him.
This month, BBC News reported it had obtained a trove of #intelligence files that showed he had been held in prison in Damascus. In interviews, a fmr Syrian general, Safwan Bahloul, said he had interrogated Tice, the first time any Syrian ofcl had disclosed having had contact w/ him.
#Assad #WarCrimes
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The #US ofcls confronted Moustapha with a document showing that the Syrians had #AustinTice in their custody in 2012. The document, one of the US ofcls said, was the equivalent of what is known in law enforcement circles as a “BOLO” — or be on the lookout — as Syrian ofcls combed Damascus looking for Tice after his escape.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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The #US ofcls confronted Moustapha with a document showing that the Syrians had #AustinTice in their custody in 2012. The document, one of the US ofcls said, was the equivalent of what is known in law enforcement circles as a “BOLO” — or be on the lookout — as Syrian ofcls combed Damascus looking for Tice after his escape.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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#AustinTice escaped weeks later but was recaptured by one of the security branches. A witness told the #FBI that #BasssmHassan was involved in Tice’s capture & imprisonment. After his recapture, Tice was placed in a detention facility under the control of Hassan, who was in charge of #Assad’s security….
In 2022 & 2023, snr #Biden ofcls traveled to Oman to meet w/ Imad Moustapha, a fmr Syrian ambassador.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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#AustinTice escaped weeks later but was recaptured by one of the security branches. A witness told the #FBI that #BasssmHassan was involved in Tice’s capture & imprisonment. After his recapture, Tice was placed in a detention facility under the control of Hassan, who was in charge of #Assad’s security….
In 2022 & 2023, snr #Biden ofcls traveled to Oman to meet w/ Imad Moustapha, a fmr Syrian ambassador.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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#AustinTice, a former Marine who graduated from the #Georgetown School of #ForeignService & was also enrolled in #law school there, was abducted in August 2012 after traveling to a suburb of Damascus. Weeks later, he appeared blindfolded in a video w/masked men carrying assault rifles. Former American ofcls believe that the video might have been a ruse to blame militants for his abduction.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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#AustinTice, a former Marine who graduated from the #Georgetown School of #ForeignService & was also enrolled in #law school there, was abducted in August 2012 after traveling to a suburb of Damascus. Weeks later, he appeared blindfolded in a video w/masked men carrying assault rifles. Former American ofcls believe that the video might have been a ruse to blame militants for his abduction.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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Diplomatic efforts, along with a #CIA task force & secret outreach by the spy agency’s ofcls, failed to turn up info about #AustinTice. #US ofcls were deflated after the govt fell, & they were not able to unravel the mystery of Tice’s abduction even with a sizable reward & US spy agencies focused on #Syria. The country’s new president, Ahmed al-#Shara, also agreed to help search for Tice as part of his overtures to Washington.
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Diplomatic efforts, along with a #CIA task force & secret outreach by the spy agency’s ofcls, failed to turn up info about #AustinTice. #US ofcls were deflated after the govt fell, & they were not able to unravel the mystery of Tice’s abduction even with a sizable reward & US spy agencies focused on #Syria. The country’s new president, Ahmed al-#Shara, also agreed to help search for Tice as part of his overtures to Washington.
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Over a period of time since late April, #BassamHassan was interviewed by #FBI & #CIA. It is not clear how many times the investigators spoke to Hassan, or the extent of the info he provided about #AustinTice or other aspects of #Syria’s #ChemicalWeapons program or other activities under #Assad.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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Over a period of time since late April, #BassamHassan was interviewed by #FBI & #CIA. It is not clear how many times the investigators spoke to Hassan, or the extent of the info he provided about #AustinTice or other aspects of #Syria’s #ChemicalWeapons program or other activities under #Assad.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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…#BBCNews also reported that #BassamHassan had told #intelligence ofcls that #AustinTice had been executed.
As one of #Assad’s closest #security advisers, Hassan is accused of helping orchestrate attacks involving a lethal #NerveAgent in 2013 in the Ghouta suburbs outside Damascus. fmr ofcls under Assad & American ofcls have also described Hassan as a close partner of #Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in #Syria, w/direct insights into Iranian activities in the region.
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…#BBCNews also reported that #BassamHassan had told #intelligence ofcls that #AustinTice had been executed.
As one of #Assad’s closest #security advisers, Hassan is accused of helping orchestrate attacks involving a lethal #NerveAgent in 2013 in the Ghouta suburbs outside Damascus. fmr ofcls under Assad & American ofcls have also described Hassan as a close partner of #Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in #Syria, w/direct insights into Iranian activities in the region.
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A fmr snr American ofcl familiar w/ the #AustinTice case said there should be skepticism about what #BassamHassan told investigators because of a possible desire to cast blame on #Assad.
Assad fled to Moscow after the collapse of his government, leaving behind some of his most ardent supporters. Several Syrian & Lebanese ofcls w/ties to the former al-Assad government expressed similar concerns over Hassan’s testimony.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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A fmr snr American ofcl familiar w/ the #AustinTice case said there should be skepticism about what #BassamHassan told investigators because of a possible desire to cast blame on #Assad.
Assad fled to Moscow after the collapse of his government, leaving behind some of his most ardent supporters. Several Syrian & Lebanese ofcls w/ties to the former al-Assad government expressed similar concerns over Hassan’s testimony.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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…American #intelligence agencies have long believed that #BassamHassan played a critical role in #AustinTice’s imprisonment. His name was one of several the #Biden admin gave the rebel group that toppled the #Assad Syrian govt in the hopes it could obtain information about Tice. Hassan, American officials believe, could provide clues about not only Tice but also other matters of importance to the #UnitedStates & its allies.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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…American #intelligence agencies have long believed that #BassamHassan played a critical role in #AustinTice’s imprisonment. His name was one of several the #Biden admin gave the rebel group that toppled the #Assad Syrian govt in the hopes it could obtain information about Tice. Hassan, American officials believe, could provide clues about not only Tice but also other matters of importance to the #UnitedStates & its allies.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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For more than a decade, the #UnitedStates has hunted for information about Mr. Tice’s whereabouts, holding out hope that he survived Syria’s brutal prison system, where torture and killings were routine. The rapid collapse of #Assad’s reign after more than a half-century of family rule helped renew the search for #AustinTice, with American investigators believing they might finally learn his fate.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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For more than a decade, the #UnitedStates has hunted for information about Mr. Tice’s whereabouts, holding out hope that he survived Syria’s brutal prison system, where torture and killings were routine. The rapid collapse of #Assad’s reign after more than a half-century of family rule helped renew the search for #AustinTice, with American investigators believing they might finally learn his fate.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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In meetings w/ the #FBI & #CIA, the fmr commander, #BassamHassan, a top adviser to #Assad who was accused of facilitating the country’s #ChemicalWeapons attacks on #civilians, disclosed in recent weeks that Assad, the #authoritarian leader who was toppled in Dec, had ordered the killing of #AustinTice. The #journalist was kidnapped 13 years ago at a checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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In meetings w/ the #FBI & #CIA, the fmr commander, #BassamHassan, a top adviser to #Assad who was accused of facilitating the country’s #ChemicalWeapons attacks on #civilians, disclosed in recent weeks that Assad, the #authoritarian leader who was toppled in Dec, had ordered the killing of #AustinTice. The #journalist was kidnapped 13 years ago at a checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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A top Syrian general under President Bashar al-#Assad before his ouster has surfaced in Lebanon, where he told US investigators that #AustinTice, an American #journalist who went missing in 2012, was dead & provided the possible site of his grave….
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/syria-austin-tice-journalist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
A top Syrian general under President Bashar al-#Assad before his ouster has surfaced in Lebanon, where he told US investigators that #AustinTice, an American #journalist who went missing in 2012, was dead & provided the possible site of his grave….
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/syria-austin-tice-journalist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
@fulelo Surely trump, being a so-called 'strongman', can simply call his adorable buddy vlad putin and tell him to hand that assad guy over. Right?
Surely it's worth at least asking, right?
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@fulelo Surely trump, being a so-called 'strongman', can simply call his adorable buddy vlad putin and tell him to hand that assad guy over. Right?
Surely it's worth at least asking, right?
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Suriye'de 13 yıl önce kaybolan ABD'li gazeteci yaşıyor mu? Açıklama geldi: Fox News'un haberine göre, ABD'li gazeteci Austin Tice'ın ailesi, yıllardır Suriye'de kayıp olan gazetecinin kalıntılarının bulunduğuna dair medyada çıkan haberlere ilişkin açıklama yaptı.
Söz konusu haberleri yalanlayan aile, "Kurbanların ailelerine yardım etmek için sürdürülen her türlü çabayı takdir ediyoruz." ifadesini… https://www.eshahaber.com.tr/haber/suriye-de-13-yil-once-kaybolan-abd-li-gazeteci-yasiyor-mu-aciklama-geldi-224714.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon EshaHaber.com.tr #Suriye #AustinTice #Gazeteci #Kayıp #Medya
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🇸🇾 SYRIA | 🇺🇸 US
🔴 US Sends Syria Demands for Sanctions Relief🔸 First Trump-era high-level contact: US met Syria FM on March 18 in Brussels.
🔸 Demands: Remove foreign fighters from gov’t, destroy chemical stockpiles, assist in finding missing journalist Austin Tice.
🔸 In exchange: 2-year sanctions exemption & US statement backing Syria’s territorial integrity. -
🇸🇾 SYRIA | 🇺🇸 US
🔴 US Sends Syria Demands for Sanctions Relief🔸 First Trump-era high-level contact: US met Syria FM on March 18 in Brussels.
🔸 Demands: Remove foreign fighters from gov’t, destroy chemical stockpiles, assist in finding missing journalist Austin Tice.
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Debra Tice, missing US journalist Austin Tice's mother visits Syria to renew search for him
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0yw1d212do
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Debra Tice, missing US journalist Austin Tice's mother visits Syria to renew search for him
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0yw1d212do
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Le journaliste américain #AustinTice est "vivant", l'évêque Youhanna Ibrahim avait été emprisonné par le régime syrien, selon une ONG
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The U.S. has made “direct contact” with the Syrian rebels now in control of the country after toppling the Assad regime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says. One key discussion point was the fate of the missing American journalist, Austin Tice. @BBCNews has more:
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The U.S. has made “direct contact” with the Syrian rebels now in control of the country after toppling the Assad regime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says. One key discussion point was the fate of the missing American journalist, Austin Tice. @BBCNews has more:
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A video has surfaced online suggesting that American journalist Austin Tice has been found alive in Damascus after disappearing in 2012 and being declared missing.
There is currently no official confirmation that it is him.
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Beyaz Saray: Austin'i kurtarmak için Türklerle çalışıyoruz: Beyaz Saray Sözcüsü Karine Jean-Pierre, Suriye'de geçiş sürecinde Suriye halkına destek olmak için ellerinden geleni yapacaklarını belirterek, ülkedeki tüm gruplarla temas halinde olduklarını kaydetti.
GAZETECİ AUSTIN TICE İÇİN TÜRKLERLE ÇALIŞIYORUZ
Öte yandan ABD'li sözcü, 2012 yılında Suriye'de kaçırılan Amerikalı gazeteci Austin… https://www.eshahaber.com.tr/haber/beyaz-saray-austin-i-kurtarmak-icin-turklerle-calisiyoruz-190756.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon EshaHaber.com.tr #BeyazSaray #AustinTice #Suriye #Gazetecilik #Türkiye
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Photo-shoot yesterday: The family of freelance journalist Austin Tice, held in Syria since 2012, reports on its meeting at the White House. National Press Club, 6 Dec. 2024. Speaking here: Debra Tice, Austin Tice's mother
Gallery: https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Press-Club-events/Tice-family-press-conference
#Photography #NewsPhotography #AustinTice #Hostage #Journalist #WhiteHouse #PressFreedom #NationalPressClub
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Photo-shoot yesterday: The family of freelance journalist Austin Tice, held in Syria since 2012, reports on its meeting at the White House. National Press Club, 6 Dec. 2024. Speaking here: Debra Tice, Austin Tice's mother
Gallery: https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Press-Club-events/Tice-family-press-conference
#Photography #NewsPhotography #AustinTice #Hostage #Journalist #WhiteHouse #PressFreedom #NationalPressClub
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The family of Austin Tice, a Houston journalist and U.S. Marine Corps veteran kidnapped in Syria more than a dozen years ago, is making a fresh push with the Biden Administration to secure his freedom.
#International #Local #News #Politics #AustinTice #Hostages #Kidnapping #MissingPerson #NationalSecurityCouncil #PresidentJoeBiden #Syria #SyrianCivilWar
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The family of Austin Tice, a Houston journalist and U.S. Marine Corps veteran kidnapped in Syria more than a dozen years ago, is making a fresh push with the Biden Administration to secure his freedom.
#International #Local #News #Politics #AustinTice #Hostages #Kidnapping #MissingPerson #NationalSecurityCouncil #PresidentJoeBiden #Syria #SyrianCivilWar
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A visit Friday morning to the newspaper that temporarily blew up my career just over 13 years ago reminded me of how easy I’ve had it in this profession as measured on almost any relative scale.
The event that the Washington Post hosted to mark World Press Freedom Day featured one journalist who spent 544 days incarcerated in Iran before being freed in a prisoner swap, columnist Jason Rezaian, and honored three others still languishing in jails or other, unknown whereabouts under authoritarian regimes: freelance reporter Austin Tice, missing in Syria since 2012; historian, politician and Post contributor Vladimir Kara-Murza, jailed in Russia for two years and counting; the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich, imprisoned in Russia since last March; and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, locked up in Russia since last June.
(See a pattern here? Russian dictator Vladimir Putin should die in a fire, not only for those crimes but for the violence he’s inflicted on Ukraine and other neighbors and for how he’s stolen the future of his country to satisfy his own greed. The same fire would look better with the addition of Putin’s fellow war criminal, Syrian serial killer Bashar al-Assad.)
The Post’s event started with Rezaian interviewing Gershkovich’s sister Danielle. Hearing her talk about sending letters to Evan–which she must write in Russian before having them relayed to his cell–brought up memories of looking at the letters of imprisoned dissidents in the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Vilnius, Lithuania this February.
And Danielle Gershkovich opine that “No one should have to pay that price for journalism,” triggered only my fifth or sixth thought that morning along the lines of “my work is not that hard.”
In turn, Rezaian saying that “I feel like I’m looking back in time a little bit–the defiance and resilience is really inspiring to me as somebody who went through something similar a few years ago” reminded me that some journalists bring a deeper perspective to an interview than others.
The next panel at the Post’s event featured two overseas Posties, London bureau chief William Booth and Gaza-based correspondent Hazem Balousha, discussing covering Israel’s invasion of Gaza after the Oct. 7 mass murders and kidnappings committed by Hamas terrorists. Balousha and his family had to flee their home, and he and Booth spoke about how restrictions imposed by Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces have made it difficult to tell the stories of Palestinians caught in the middle of this (many of which, per Balousha’s reporting, are fed up with Hamas).
“I have to say, it’s not a free country,” Balousha said of Gaza before professing his dedication to the work: “The truth, the truth and only the truth, no matter what.”
Booth closed out the panel by underscoring how this story involves a horrific level of death and injury.
“The Israelis suffered a deep loss on October 7, but what’s happening in Gaza is a tremendous amount of violence,” Booth said. “Gaza has been reduced to rubble in many sectors.”
The event’s last panel–moderated by Post columnist Jonathan Capeheart and featuring Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists; Stephen Capus, president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Clayton Weimers, executive director of Reporters Without Borders–highlighted how Palestinian journalists have also been victims of Israel’s campaign.
Ginsberg said that CPJ has documented the killings of 97 journalists since Oct. 7, 92 of them Palestinian, as a list of names scrolled up on a screen behind the stage. Like the IDF’s incineration of a team of World Central Kitchen volunteers, some of these deaths look like war crimes a long distance from the IDF’s declared mission and values. And yes, my tax dollars help send weapons to the current Israeli government that I hope will soon get the boot from fed-up citizens who, unlike those in Gaza, can vote it out at some point.
Ginsberg also pointed out that abuse of power against journalists can and does happen here: “This week alone, we’ve seen the arrests of journalists for covering protests.”
Then the event wrapped up, I took Metro home, got on a call to quiz an expert for an upcoming story, enjoyed a homemade sandwich for lunch, and treated myself to the sort of postprandial nap that I assume war correspondents don’t enjoy.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/03/todays-reminder-that-i-have-an-easy-lot-in-journalism/
#AlsuKurmasheva #AustinTice #EvanGershkovich #Gaza #JasonRezaian #JournalismIsNotACrime #VladimirKaraMurza #washingtonPost #WorldPressFreedomDay
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Also a standing ovation for #AustinTice, believed held in #Syria since 2012.