Washington D.C. -VOA, December 24, 2024
The nonprofit group Hostage Aid Worldwide, one of the teams looking for U.S. journalist Austin Tice in Syria, said Tuesday it believes he is still alive.
“We have data that Austin is alive till January 2024, but the president of the U.S. said in August that he is alive, and we are sure that he is alive today,” said Nizar Zakka, president of Hostage Aid Worldwide, according to Agence France-Presse.
“We are trying to be as transparent as possible and to share as much information as possible,” he told a news conference Tuesday in Damascus but did not offer information on where Tice might be.
Earlier this week, Roger Carstens, the U.S. hostage envoy, said a network of secret prisons run by the former Syrian government is more extensive than the U.S. had realized and is complicating efforts to find Tice.
