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AEJ
welcomes release of Alan Johnston |
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London,
9 July 2007 The Association of European
Journalists, which includes journalists from more than 20 countries, welcomes
and celebrates the release of the BBC correspondent, Alan Johnston, after 114
days of captivity in Gaza. The AEJ was one of many international
organisations which had called on those holding him to set him free. The AEJ notes that Alan's release followed a clear statement about his case by a leading Islamic cleric in Gaza, who said: "According to religion … his freedom |
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must be returned to him. Keeping
him in captivity is against religious law." The AEJ re-affirms its support
for calls for the release of other journalists and media workers who are being
unjustly deprived of their freedom, on whatever pretext, in many parts of the
world William Horsley, AEJ Media
Freedom Representative and Chairman, UK Section |
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