Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, recipients of the 2017 Foley Medill Medal of Courage, have each gotten a seven-year prison sentence in Myanmar for violating the country’s Official Secrets Act in the course of their investigative reportage on an alleged massacre of Rohingya Muslims there, CNN reported Sept. 3.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran’s arrest and imprisonment of Princeton University graduate student Xiyue Wang as having “no legal basis” and called for his release in an August 2018 opinion.
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As drone technology rapidly advances, legislation struggles to keep up.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his trip to Southeast Asia offers new spending on infrastructure and security funding in the Indo-Pacific as China grows its power in the region with its One Belt One Road projects.
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Students from the Medill School of Journalism’s Politics and National Security Journalism initiative visited the Obama Foundation July 20 to learn about plans for the new presidential center in Chicago honoring former President Barack Obama.
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Students from the Medill School of Journalism’s Politics and National Security Journalism initiative met July 20 with national political consultant David Axelrod, former chief strategist and senior adviser to President Barack Obama, and learned immediately of his respect for both journalism and politics.
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Chinese telecommunications company ZTE is allowed to resume business in the U.S. that may potentially threaten U.S. national security.
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As tensions rise in the Taiwan Strait, the U.S. navigates its relationship to both China and Taiwan to avoid further escalation.
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The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation and the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University today announced the selection of Medill graduate student Juliette Rocheleau as the inaugural Medill Foley Fellow.
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The Military Reporters & Editors association has joined with other press groups in urging U.S. officials to press authorities in Egypt to release from prison an acclaimed Egyptian photojournalist who faces the death penalty for taking pictures. MRE joined two dozen other organizations and individuals in a June 26 statement that pressed Congress and the Trump administration to take all necessary steps to pressure Egypt to immediately and unconditionally release Mahmoud Abou Zeid, who works under the name Shawkan.
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