1. Peter Greste is a dual citizen Latvian Australian academic, memoirist and writer.
28 Facts About Peter Greste
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On 23 June 2014, Peter Greste was found guilty of falsifying news and having a negative impact on overseas perceptions of the country, and sentenced to seven years prison.
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On 1 February 2015, Peter Greste was officially deported to Australia on the condition that he face prison or trial in his home country; something Australia did not uphold.
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Peter Greste was born on 1 December 1965 in Sydney, Australia.
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Peter Greste was school captain of Indooroopilly State High School, and holds a Bachelor of Business degree from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.
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Peter Greste returned to London and worked for BBC News 24.
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Peter Greste was next based in Mexico, then Santiago, as a correspondent for the BBC.
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Peter Greste returned to Afghanistan in 2001 to cover the start of the War in Afghanistan.
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From 2004, Peter Greste was based in Mombasa, Kenya, then Johannesburg, South Africa, followed by six years in Nairobi, Kenya.
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In June 2011, Peter Greste reported from dangerous areas in Somalia, including Mogadishu, presenting Somalia: Land of Anarchy for the BBC programme Panorama.
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In late December 2013, Peter Greste was arrested in Cairo with Al Jazeera colleagues Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed.
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In January 2014, Egyptian authorities were reportedly going to charge twenty Al Jazeera journalists, including Peter Greste, of falsifying news and having a negative impact on overseas perceptions of the country.
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On 21 February 2014, Peter Greste was refused bail and his case was adjourned until 5 March.
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In 2017, Peter Greste wrote, directed, and featured as interviewer in Facebook: Cracking the Code, a 45-minute television documentary for the ABC Television programme Four Corners.
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In February 2018, Peter Greste was appointed UNESCO Chair in Journalism and Communications at the University of Queensland.
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In 2018 Peter Greste presented the ABC series Monash and Me, a two-part TV documentary miniseries on the heroics of Australian First World War military commander Sir John Monash.
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In 2022, Peter Greste commenced as an adjunct professor of journalism at Macquarie University.
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On 2 November 2022, Peter Greste delivered a public lecture on media freedom and national security titled "The Pen and The Sword" on ABC Radio National's program Big Ideas.
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Peter Greste has brought attention to Alaa Abd El-Fattah, whom he described in 2022 as "easily the best-known political prisoner in Egypt today".
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Peter Greste cited Abd El-Fattah's collection of writings entitled You have not yet been defeated as especially meaningful to him, because, when imprisoned with Abd El-Fattah for several months in 2014, he had helped him to understand their predicament, and given him the psychological tools to survive what they went through.
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In mid-January 2025 Peter Greste joined Soueif for a 21-day hunger strike.
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Peter Greste won a Peabody Award for a BBC documentary on Somalia in 2011.
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Two weeks after being released from prison and deported from Egypt in February 2015, Peter Greste accepted a special Royal Television Society award in London on behalf of himself and two Al Jazeera colleagues, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, for sacrifices to journalism.
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Peter Greste has won the International Association of Press Clubs' Freedom of Speech Award and the RSL's ANZAC Peace Prize.
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In October 2024, The Correspondent, an Australian film adaptation of Peter Greste's experiences, had its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival.
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Peter Greste met his partner, Christine Jackman, around six months after being released from prison in Cairo.
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Peter Greste is a former correspondent and journalist, writing Long-form journalism.
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In 2021 Peter Greste was stepfather to her two teenage boys.