(1 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 1 August 2024
1. Wide of front of Reporters Without Borders office
2. Mid of front of Reporters Without Borders office
3. Close of front of Reporters Without Borders office
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Clayton Weimers, Reporters Without Borders Executive Director:
“Well, we do have confirmation now that both Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, the two American reporters who were being held in Russia have been released and will soon be reunited with their families. We couldn’t be more thrilled at RSF. You know, we have been working for this outcome for months and months, along with our partners in their respective media outlets and in the U.S. government. And we were just so happy for both Evan and Alsu that they will be safely home with their families. But we have to remind everyone – they never should have been in this position in the first place. They were hostages of the Russian state who were held because they’re journalists, and because they could be exchanged later for Russian prisoners held abroad. And we call on the Russian authorities to release all the remaining 40 plus journalists who are still behind bars in Russia.”
6. Close pan from RSF poster to postcards of Christopher Deloire
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Clayton Weimers, Reporters Without Borders Executive Director:
“And we’re seeing other countries following suit and increasingly cracking down on the free press and feeling emboldened to arrest more journalists. We talk all the time about this problem of impunity for crimes against journalists, and what we mean by that is the authoritarian regimes that seek to shut down the free press don’t feel like they’re suffering enough consequences for doing so.”
8. Wide of RSF office interior with Weimers sitting in the middle
9. Mid of RSF office interior with Weimers sitting in the middle
10. Mid of Weimers typing on computer
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Clayton Weimers, Reporters Without Borders Executive Director:
“We need to find ways to impose a greater cost on these bad actors, so that journalists can be safe to do their essential jobs everywhere in the world.”
12. Close of Weimers’ hands typing on computer
13. Close of Weimers’ side profile as he looks at computer screen
STORYLINE:
The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich and Radio Free Europe journalist Alsu Kurmasheva.
Reporters Without Borders Executive Director Clayton Weimers reacted with joy, as he and colleagues at RSF were greatly involved in the process to have Gerschkovich and Kurmasheva released.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled at RSF. You know, we have been working for this outcome for months and months, along with our partners in their respective media outlets and in the U.S. government,” Weimers said.
Weimers, however, says that there are still many more journalists to be released from Russian prisons.
“We call on the Russian authorities to release all the remaining 40 plus journalists who are still behind bars in Russia,” Weimers said.
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