Peter Greste

Professor Peter Greste is an Australian journalist, academic, speaker and author. He spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa, until he was arrested on terrorism charges in Egypt in 2013. His struggle for freedom for himself and the press became the subject of his book, The First Casualty, published in 2017. It is now a major movie, The Correspondent, released in April 2025, and his book has been updated and republished with the same title.