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The Foundation has announced the winners of its 2024 Foley Freedom Awards. The awards will be presented May 1 at a fundraising dinner.
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American Mother is the heart-rending story of a mother who, in the course of confronting her son’s killer, gets to the elemental heart of violence and forgiveness. Diane Foley is the mother of Jim, a freelance journalist captured and beheaded by ISIS in 2014, an image which became one of the most iconic of the 21st century.
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American Mother is the heart-rending story of a mother who, in the course of confronting her son’s killer, gets to the elemental heart of violence and forgiveness. Diane Foley is the mother of Jim, a freelance journalist captured and beheaded by ISIS in 2014, an image which became one of the most iconic of the 21st century.
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Diaa Al-Kahlout, the veteran Gaza bureau chief for the Qatari-funded London-based newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, had been covering the Israel-Gaza war for two months when he became part of the news. On December 7, Al-Kahlout was detained along with members of his family by Israeli forces…
On Aug. 19, 2014, the world watched in horror as the American journalist James Foley read a script prepared for him by ISIS terrorists, who filmed him from an unknown location in the Syrian desert. Mr. Foley, who had been in ISIS captivity for almost…
In August 2014, a single image taken in the Syrian desert sent a shock wave across the world. It showed American journalist James Foley on his knees in an orange jumpsuit, moments before he was beheaded by a balaclava-wearing terrorist. Ten years on, his mother…
Sandra Fish, who has covered politics since 1982, was asked to leave by security about an hour into the state party assembly
In a world where information is power, the erosion of press freedom strikes at the core of democracy itself. In 2024, the fight for truth has never been more crucial, and the stakes have never been higher. “The decline of media freedom and the rise…
Women journalists Antonina Favorskaya, known for her independent reporting, and Olga Komleva, a dedicated correspondent for RusNews, were arrested in March on charges of “extremism” linked to the coverage of the trials of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. If convicted, they will face up…
President Joe Biden said the United States would continue to “impose costs” on Russia for its imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested one year ago.
Paul Beckett was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. But since the arrest of the newspaper’s Russia correspondent, Evan Gershkovich, last year in Russia on bogus spying charges, he has been working full time on advocating for the reporter’s release. In connection…
Diane Foley was repulsed by the thought of shaking the hand of the shackled prisoner seated in the courthouse room. As she prepared to meet Alexanda Kotey for the first time, the prospect of touching the terrorist who had beaten and helped murder her son…
On the 10th anniversary of journalist James Foley’s death, artist Bradley McCallum’s exhibition offers a chance for reflection
It’s been more than one year since Russia unjustly imprisoned the now 32-year-old Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Though the Kremlin claims he is a spy, he is only guilty of doing his job as an honest journalist, reporting on Russian President Vladimir…
The mother of Mark Swidan, a Texas businessman who has been wrongfully detained in China, said she fears he may take his own life after more than a decade behind bars.
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