9 Sep 2006 04:27
\nStatement from National Geographic Society on Journalist Paul Salopek <\/p>\n
From National Geographic Magazine Editor in Chief Chris Johns <\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 \/PRNewswire\/ — The following is a statement from National Geographic Magazine Editor in Chief Chris Johns:<\/p>\n
I am overjoyed that Paul Salopek and his Chadian assistants will be freed, and I thank Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for it. This is also victory for freedom of the press. Paul is a sensitive and careful reporter and I look forward to more of his insightful writing in National Geographic magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am grateful to Gov. Bill Richardson and Ambassador Khidir Ahmed. Both have worked tirelessly with National Geographic and the Chicago Tribune to secure Paul’s release. In a telephone conversation this evening Paul told me he’s concerned about the safe return home of his Chadian interpreter and driver — Suleiman Abakar Moussa and Idriss Abdulraham Anu — who are scheduled to be released with him in El Fasher Saturday. I assured him that I and the National Geographic Society will take responsibility for getting them home safely.<\/p>\n
Chris Johns is in Khartoum, Sudan, with Governor Richardson’s delegation. <\/p>\n
Source: National Geographic Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}