Peter Greste
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Greste with his Peabody Award for the documentary Somalia: Land of Anarchy
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| Born |
1 December 1965 Sydney, Australia |
| Residence | Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality | Latvian Australian |
| Citizenship | Australia Latvia |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Peter Greste (born 1 December 1965) is a Latvian-Australian journalist and correspondent. He has worked as a correspondent for Reuters, CNN and the BBC, predominantly in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.
On 29 December 2013, Greste and two other Al Jazeera English journalists, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, were arrested by Egyptian authorities. On 23 June 2014, Greste was found guilty by the court, and sentenced to seven years of incarceration.
On 1 February 2015, a month after a retrial of Greste, Fahmy and Mohammad was announced, Greste was deported and flown to Cyprus. His colleagues were released on bail on 12 February 2015.
Greste's ancestry is Latvian. He was born in Sydney and has two younger brothers. He is a dual citizen of Australia and Latvia. He attended Indooroopilly State High School where he was school captain. He graduated in journalism studies from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.
From 1991 to 1995, Greste was based in London, Bosnia and South Africa, where he worked for Reuters, CNN, WTN and the BBC. In 1995, he was based in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was a correspondent for the BBC and Reuters, after which he was based in Belgrade for a year, where he was a correspondent for Reuters. He then returned to London, where he worked for BBC News 24. He was then based in Mexico, then Santiago, as a correspondent for the BBC. He returned to Afghanistan in 2001 to cover the start of the war. After Afghanistan, he worked across the Middle East and Latin America. From 2004, he was based in Mombasa, Kenya, then Johannesburg, South Africa, followed by Nairobi, Kenya, where he has lived since 2009. In 2011, he won a Peabody Award for a documentary on Somalia. He is a correspondent for Al Jazeera English in Africa.
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