Disappearance of Austin Bennett Tice (Darayya, Syria | August 12, 2012)

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Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the location, recovery, and return of Austin Bennett Tice, an American law school student and freelance journalist who went missing in Syria in 2012.

Tice, a Georgetown Law School student, was in Syria reporting on the Syrian civil war as a freelance journalist during the summer break before his final year of law school.

He entered Syria in May 2012 as a freelance reporter for McClatchy News, The Washington Post, CBS, and other news media, covering from the front lines the violent conflict and humanitarian crisis as the country descended into a civil war. Tice was abducted August 12, 2012, while reporting from the Damascus suburb of Darayya, Syria.

In September 2012, a short video of a blindfolded and bound Tice was posted to the internet. U.S. officials subsequently said that Tice was being held by the Syrian government. He has not been seen or heard from publicly in more than 12 years.