Join the NUJ’s panel event to celebrate World Press Freedom Day
Friday 3 May, 13.00-14.00
Chair: Seamus Dooley, NUJ assistant general secretary.
Speakers:
Nasser Abu Baker is the president of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, a position to which he was re-elected at its congress in May 2023. Now based in Ramallah, he is originally from Jenin. He was a reporter for Agence France Press for many years, and continues to work as a journalist, as well as his union work. Unlike many Palestinian unions, PSJ has members in both Gaza and the West Bank, and counts around 80 per cent of Palestine’s journalists as members.
Stella Assange is a lawyer and human rights defender. She has been a member of Julian Assange’s legal team since 2011, and married the Wikileaks founder in 2022. Born in South Africa, she is a citizen of both Sweden and Spain. She has degrees from SOAS, Oxford and the University of Madrid.
Behrang Tajdin is BBC Persian TV's economics correspondent and BBC Persian chapel chair. Born and raised in Iran, he moved to the UK in 2009 to work for the BBC and joined the NUJ shortly after that. He first became a union rep in 2016 and has been actively involved in the joint BBC-NUJ campaign to end the abuse, threats and harassment of BBC Persian journalists and their families back home by the Iranian authorities. He has spoken at the UN Human Rights Council against Iran's actions, calling on the regime to end "its war on journalists and journalism".
