This Friday, Oct. 12: National Press Club To Host Briefing On Effort To #KeepEmilioFree
Freed after eight months in jail, award-winning Mexican journalist faces new legal threat
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Eduardo Beckett, the lead attorney for the National Press Club's 2017 Press Freedom Award winner Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, will brief reporters on continuing legal threats to the Mexican reporter on Friday, October 12 at 9:30 a.m. in the Club's Zenger Room.
Freed from eight months of detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a lengthy legal challenge by U.S. and international press organizations, Gutiérrez and his son, Oscar, are now living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the veteran reporter has been welcomed as a member of this year's class of Knight-Wallace journalism fellows.
Unless the Board of Immigration Appeals intervenes, however, the two will be forced to return to El Paso for an Oct. 22 hearing on their asylum case — before the same judge who last year denied their asylum claim. Beckett is seeking a change of venue to Michigan; the Department of Homeland Security has filed a brief opposing the move.
This news conference is open to credentialed media and members of the National Press Club free of charge, however registration is required. Please click here to register.
Beckett will be available to discuss the case at 9:30 a.m. EST in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club. Members of the media who would like to participate in the press conference but are unable to be at the Press Club in person, can join remotely and pose questions to Attorney Beckett by phone using the following dial-in information:
TOLL-FREE PARTICIPANTS: (833) 832-2121
TOLL/INTERNATIONAL LINE: +1 (706) 902-0489
PRESS CONTACT:
Lindsay Underwood,
[email protected],
(202) 662-7561
SOURCE National Press Club
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