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Andrew Berends Released!
From Reporters Without Borders: Press releaseSeptember 9, 2008NIGERIA US filmmaker and reporter released after ten days of questioning Reporters Without Borders is relieved today by the news that US filmmaker and reporter Andrew Berends has been released from Nigerian government custody. Berends was interrogated for ten consecutive days after he and his translator, Samuel George, [...]
Andrew Berends provisionally released from Nigerian custody to US embassy personnel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****************CONTAINS UPDATES*********************** CONTACT Aaron Soffin, Storyteller Productions Phone: 917.887.4063 / 212.712.2781 Email: soffin@gmail.com American filmmaker provisionally released from Nigerian custody to US embassy personnel NEW YORK, September 5, 2008 – American filmmaker Andrew Berends is being provisionally released to US embassy personnel late Friday night, but is required to return to the [...]
Update on Andrew Berends Situation: Schumer calls situation “untenable”
******************************** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****************CONTAINS UPDATES*********************** CONTACT Aaron Soffin, Storyteller Productions Phone: 917.887.4063 / 212.712.2781 Email: soffin@gmail.com Senator Charles Schumer calls American filmmaker’s detainment by the Nigerian government “untenable” NEW YORK, September 4, 2008 – Hearing of the arrest of Andrew Berends, an established, award-winning American filmmaker and journalist, Senator Charles Schumer, D-New York, responded [...]
Free Andrew Berends – Arrested in Nigeria
My good friend’s colleague and fellow filmmaker Andrew Berends was arrested in Nigeria. Please help spread the word as international pressure will help speed up his release. For more information, see this article in the New York Times (full text below). Let this also be a sober reminder of why it’s so important to fight [...]