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The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing of Governor Bill Richardson. “Governor Richardson was a true hero for Americans held hostage and detained abroad,” said Foundation Founder and President Diane Foley. “The Governor was a man of moral courage, extraordinary…
The March 29th wrongful detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich by Russia, which followed the 2022 wrongful detention and subsequent Dec. 8 of WNBA star Brittney Griner captured public attention. But for most families of U.S. hostages and those wrongfully detained abroad it…
Race to Be Held at Anacostia Park, Oct. 15 at 8 a.m.
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Diane Foley writes an op-ed that is published in The Hill
When I met Jim, he told me to “always keep writing.” I listened. Now as a senior in college, I’m majoring in journalism, writing for local newspapers and traveling overseas to report on migration.
The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation is deeply grateful for the news that Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi, Morad Tahbaz, and one other American who has not yet been publicly named have been moved from the notorious Evin Prison in Iran. They and a fifth American,…
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In his second collection—a powerful act of documentary poetics a decade in the making—Daniel Brock Johnson chronicles the perils and joys of fatherhood alongside a shattering tragedy that plays out thousands of miles away.
On March 20, 2023, two men got out of a battered Toyota pickup in a remote area near the northwestern border of Niger. One was Jeff Woodke, a 62-year-old missionary and humanitarian aid worker who had been held captive, mostly in chains, for six years,…
The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation is proud to welcome Benjamin Gray as Vice President
Woodruff, who emceed the Foley Foundation’s 2023 Freedom Awards Dinner in Washington, will join a distinguished group of former government officials, survivors and family members, and other external experts who support the Foley Foundation’s advocacy on behalf of American hostages and promotion of press freedom.
Thank you to the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation for allowing me to talk about hostage diplomacy from my point of view as a former hostage, in particular focusing on how this has become a national security Issue. I was fortunate to be released from…
The U.S. State Department said it’s “disappointed” by China’s decision to uphold the death penalty with a two-year suspended death sentence for “wrongfully detained” U.S. citizen Mark Swidan.
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