Peter Greste is Professor of Journalism at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is an award winning journalist and his career has included working for the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. Peter has covered stories from London to South Africa, Belgrade, Afghanistan, Mexico, Santiago and the Middle East. He also did a stint in Darwin working for Channel 10. In 2013 whilst covering news in Egypt, Peter and his colleagues were arrested and subsequently found guilty of being a threat to national security. He was sentenced to jail for 7 years. A year into his sentence he was deported back to Australia. Back in Australia Peter has been involved in a number of projects and has co-founded the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom, an organisation that promotes media freedom and the right of journalists to report the news in freedom and safety. This is Peter’s story.
