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  • Escapees give hope in cases of journalists missing in Syria

    08/31/2013 5:40:33 AM PDT · by sockmonkey · 7 replies
    Committe to Protect Journalists ^ | 8-28-2013 | Jason Stern
    It has now been an entire year since Al-Hurra correspondent Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, and freelancer Austin Tice, of the United States, went missing in Syria. But the recent liberation of two freelance journalists held for months gives us some reason to hope. Fahmi disappeared during a firefight in Aleppo on August 20, 2012, along with Turkish cameraman Cüneyt Ünal. The same day, Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto was killed in Aleppo. Ünal was released by the Syrian government in November 2012, but there has still been no word on Fahmi's fate.... snip... But two abductees have recently...