BBC Journalist alive?
19/04/07 18:35 | Personal
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What good news that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says the missing BBC reporter Alan Johnston is alive. Speaking in Sweden, he confirms his intelligence services have discovered which group was holding Johnston but he would not give any further information. It can hopefully only be a matter of time until further proof is forthcoming and he is released. Johnston was seized on March 12th in Gaza.

Seizing members of the world's press is both stupid and pointless. They act as the conduit to bring grievances from within individual countries to the whole world population. Without their reports - often at locations where they might seem reckless in their pursuit of the facts - the world will be a much more closed society and individual freedoms will be exploited and suppressed by ruthless regimes.

We look forward to his early release, but until that time, the pressure must not be allowed to fade.
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