Mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was arrested while reporting on a trip to Syria in August 2012, expressed that hope on Sunday. Developments in Syria will move towards freedom by the end of the day.
Debra Tice says news that Missouri’s Travis Timmerman was released from Syrian prison by rioters “It seems like it’s repeating itself. The child woke her up when pictures of Timmerman began circulating on social media that incorrectly identified him as Tice.
Asked if Timmermans’ attribution of guilt was just a glimpse of false hope, Debra Tice saw it as a glimpse of joy being shared instead. Timmerman said he traveled to Syria on a holy mission earlier this year. and was arrested for entering the country illegally.
“The next thing you have is rehearsal … the idea of what it’s going to feel like when Austin is free,” she told NBC TV’s Meet the Press.
Tice has focused on major leasing following the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last week. After a 13-year civil war, rioters led by the armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have released thousands of people from prisons in Damascus. in which Assad controls political opponents Ordinary civilians and refugees
A week after Assad’s withdrawal Some American officials are concerned that Tice may have dripped a little during the latest round of Israeli airstrikes. Authorities were also concerned that if Tice was kept underground in a cell, He might be empty for air. As Assad builds up steep pressure on several prisons in Damascus ahead of the president’s move.
When asked whether the U.S. government should pursue Tice on the slopes in Syria, Debra Tice was cautious and expressed gratitude for the actions of journalists and other civilians. On the hill following her included Hostage Aid Worldwide.
“The American government has decided that Damascus should not be entered, so my feeling is that if they don’t want to be there then they shouldn’t be there. And the people who are there are committed people,” she said.
Tice, who worked as a freelance reporter for the Washington Post and McClatchy, was one of the first American journalists to enter Syria after the civil war broke out.
In August 2012, during the fighting in Aleppo, he was arrested.
Weeks later, a YouTube video was released showing Tice blindfolded and his hands tied behind his back. First, he pulls together a bunch of dead people in what appears to be an Afghan uniform and shouts “God is great,” apparently accusing his captors of the Islamist oppressors. Although the video first gained attention when it was posted on a website related to the Assad ally, Facebook page.
Austin Tice is a freelance journalist and former Marine who has been missing in Syria for more than twelve years.
