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37 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared On 15 December 2013 (non-exhaustive list)
AFRICA
DRC: Gulain Chanjabo, Canal Révélation - 06/05/2013
Kenya: Dickson Bokongo Bosire, Jackal News - 06/09/2013
AMERICAS
Mexico: Zoila Márquez Chiu, Linea Informativa - 07/12/2013 Gerardo Blanquet, Radio Grande de Coahuila - 30/04/2013 Sergio Landa Rosado, Diario Cardel - 22/01/2013
ASIA-PACIFIC
China / Tibet: Sungrab Gyatso, Yeshi Sangpo and Draksang - 4/01/2013
MIDDLE EAST / NORTH AFRICA
Syria: Foreigners (whose names can be revealed)
Niclas Hammarström, Swedish photographer - 23/11/2013 Magnus Falkehed, Swedish - 23/11/2013 Bünyamin Aygün, Turkish photographer, Milliyet - 21/11/2013 Javier Espinosa, Spanish journalist, El-Mundo - 16/09/2013 Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, freelance Spanish journalist - 16/09/2013 Marc Marginedas, Spanish journalist, El Periódico - 4/09/2013 Nicolas Henin, freelance French journalist - 15/06/2013 Pierre Torres, freelance French journalist - 15/06/2013 Didier François, French journalist, Europe1 - 6/06/2013 Edouard Elias, French photographer, Europe1 - 6/06/2013
James Foley, freelance US photographer - 22/11/2012 Bashar Fahmi Al-Kadumi, Jordanian reporter, Al-Hurra TV - 20/08/2012 Austin Tice, freelance US journalist, Washington Post, Al-Jazeera English, McClatchy - 13/08/2012
Moheeb Al-Nawaty, Palestinian journalist and write, Al-Arabiya website - arrested on 5/01/2011. We have not received any news since.
Syrians (whose names can be revealed)
Yasser Al-Sattouf (aka Abu Ahmed Al-Deirahafri), correspondent, Shahba Press - 20/11/2013 Muayyad Salloum, correspondent, Orient TV - 1/11/2013 Sami Jamal, freelance journalist, Radio Rozana - 14/08/2013 Anwar Hazwini, reporter, Azaz Media Center - 11/08/2013 Obeida Batal, journalist, Orient TV - 25/07/2013 Hosam Nizam Al-Dine, soundman, Orient TV - 25/07/2013 Aboud Al-Atik, technician,Orient TV - 25/07/2013 Zakaria Haj Jamo, correspondent, Yekiti media - 21/07/2013 Aboud Haddad, photographer - 26/06/2013
Akram Raslan, cartoonist, Al-Fida - arrested on 2/10/2012. We have not received any news since. Hussein Issou - journalist and writer - arrested on 3/09/2011. We have not received any news since.
Iraq: Fred Nérac, French journalist - 22/03/2003
Algeria: Djamel-Eddine Fahassi, journalist for national radio - 8/03/1995 Aziz Bouabdallah, journalist, El Alem Essiyassi (Le Monde politique) - 12/04/1997
Libya: Abdullah Ali Al-Sanussi Al-Darrat, journalist - arrested in 1973. We have not received any news since.
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