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DATELINE: 17/10/07
BBC Gaza reporter Alan Johnston was finally freed on 4 July, after 114 days of captivity and as the last edition of Free Press was being distributed. Although he has avoided media interviews, he gave an exclusive interview to the NUJ's magazine The Journalist.
In the article he thanked everyone for their support. "I'm the luckiest journalist alive" he said. "My name was mentioned so often on the BBC World Service, it felt like my own personal radio station. I was over overwhelmed by the extraordinary tide of support. People were demonstrating, calling for my release in Angola, in Bangladesh, in Belgium - gathering in the sun in places I'd never visited. It is strange and wonderful to be free."
After his release Alan went home to his parents' home in the west of Scotland to rest and recuperate.
Last modified: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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World Press Freedom Day
More reporters are currently imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country in the world. Only a matter of weeks ago lawyers failed to persuade a Turkish court to release a 76-year-old journalist from a Turkish internet news station.
World Press Freedom Day on Friday May 3, 2013 is being marked in Britain by a rally to highlight the dangers facing journalists in Turkey and in this podcast, Nicholas Jones speaks to Barry White, Organiser at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Sam Bamford, the TUC's policy officer for Eastern Europe and Africa about the importance of a campaign to highlight international press freedom.
The World Press Freedom Day rally is being staged by the National Union of Journalists at the NUJ head office, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1 on Thursday May 2, 6pm-8pm.
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DATELINE: 13/3/13
The UK launch of a 'European Citizens' Initiative' calling for EU rules against concentration of media power will take place on Thursday March 21 from 11:00am – 12:30pm in Committee Room 4A at the House of Lords, London. Guest speakers will include actor and activist Hugh Grant (pictured), media consultant Claire Enders, Professor Steven Barnett, Barry McCall (President of the NUJ) and Marc Gruber (Director of the European Federation of Journalists).
A European Citizens' Initiative is an official petition, like a Downing Street petition. If it succeeds in gathering a million signatures across the EU, the Commission is obliged to respond.
This petition calls for the EU to act to protect media pluralism and press freedom.
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