Today marks 7 years since journalist Austin Tice was detained at a checkpoint in Syria while he was reporting on the country's civil war. He's been missing ever since. His parents tell hereandnow they 'know he's alive.'
Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, speak during a press conference at the Press Club, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. was kidnapped by supporters of the Assad government at a checkpoint in Damascus, Syria, as he reported on the civil war that had just started there.
All we’ve seen of him since 2012 is a video of Tice five weeks later, blindfolded and bound, in distress, surrounded by men with firearms.“We know he's alive because we've had information from the highest level of our government that he is,” Debra says. They say through staying focused, digging through information, spreading awareness about Austin and through prayer, the Tice family has remained hopeful.
“We never had any doubt,” Debra says. “And also there's no news to the contrary, which I can tell you as the military mom, you very quickly learn no news is good news.”“Every single day Austin remains in detention his story is news. It is current and ongoing news each time the sun rises on another day – now more than 2,540 days, almost seven years,” the open letter says.to keep his name in the headlines.Debra: “We don't have frustration with the United States government.
Marc: “Well, let me put it this way. One of the things that we've had to deal with — and you know, I always have to interject that what we're dealing with is trivial compared to what Austin is dealing with — but we have turnover. We have people change assignments if they're in, say, the State Department or the FBI. We had an election in 2016. So there was a full flip of senior positions in our government.
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