Pakistani journalist will give talk at MU
Umar Cheema, an award-wining investigative journalist from Pakistan, will speak at the Reynolds Journalism Institute on the University of Missouri campus at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Cheema is receiving the International Free Speech Award this month at Syracuse University.
Cheema works for The News, the largest English-language daily newspaper in Pakistan. In September, he was abducted in the early-morning hours and tortured by masked men. He was ordered not to talk about the incident or else face death, but he immediately went on television to tell his story.
Cheema’s talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Center for the Digital Globe.
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