Sue Turton

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

I regularly give speeches, lectures and media appearances about press freedom, terrorism, assessing risk and what it's really like to work on the frontline.

My speaking engagements have included:

• speech in Speaker’s House for Amnesty International on Egypt and speaking at a debate on the UK’s part in the war on Yemen at the cross-party Commons Committee on Yemen in the Palace of Westminster

• delivered keynote speech at the Amnesty Journalism Awards

• moderating a debate on press freedom and giving several keynote addresses at the Frontline Club in London

• appearing as a panelist at Freedom House in Washington DC

• guest speaker at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, and the Women of the World Festival in London

• keynote speech to Libyan journalists at conference in Misrata, Libya

• guest lecturer at the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, Westminster University and at Manchester University’s journalism conference

• delivered a keynote speech at a British Council event in the Scottish Parliament

• speaker at the Hay Book Festival and a guest on BBC Breakfast talking about my book on youth activism: ‘This Book Will (help you) Change the World’

• speaking tour on India delivering speeches at events across the country on frontline journalism

• keynote speech at the Dispruption Network Lab in Berlin

• moderated a debate in Qatar at the international journalism conference on how to report modern day terrorism

• guest on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show in New York, CNN, ABC, CBS (and dozens of other channels) to discuss Egypt and its press crackdown

• numerous keynote speeches at private events for companies, NGOs and charities

CAMPAIGNING

In 2004 Egypt charged myself and eight of my Al Jazeera colleagues of terrorism offences.

After a sham trial Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were jailed for seven to ten years and the rest of us were convicted in absentia. It took almost two years of relentless campaigning, and for me over 400 media interviews, to get them. Baher and Mohamed were pardoned but the rest of us are still convicted terrorists according to Egypt. The battle to clear our names continues...