International
Tuesday July 21, 2015
Conflict in the Middle East
The journalists made contact last nine days. (Photo: Facebook)
Three Spanish journalists have disappeared in the region of Aleppo in northwestern Syria, said Tuesday the president of the Federation Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE), Elsa González.
“At the moment, we can only speak of disappearance, we can not yet confirm who have been kidnapped,” Gonzalez told AFP after They identify missing and journalists ‘free-lance’ Antonio Pampliega, Angel Sastre and Jose Manuel Lopez.
“We are aware of the situation,” simply stated to AFP sources Foreign Ministry, noting that “we are working on it”.
“nine days ago his whereabouts remain unknown”, said Gonzalez, who said that the journalists “entered Syria from southern Turkey on 10th and there is no news of them since the 12th” of July and also ignored if they were together.
The families of the three have asked “respect” and “the greatest possible discretion as necessary in times like these,” in a statement released by the Spanish media.
The journalists were working, among others, to media such as the Spanish daily La Razon or ABC.
Pampliega , born in 1982, has worked in places like Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria and South Sudan to different media from different countries .
also it contributed until 2013 to written that the AFP did Syria coverage.
Lopez, born in 1971, also contributed to the coverage Photo made by the AFP in several conflicts, including that of Syria until 2013.
After its beginnings in a newspaper of Leon (north of Spain), Lopez decided to work on their own covering areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Haiti, among others, also for different media.
Angel Sastre , 35, has worked hard, meanwhile, in Latin America, which has worked on prisons in El Salvador or the train known as The Beast, crossing Mexico and is used by many immigrants trying to reach the United States.
The three journalists were working in the area of Aleppo, where ” are waging fierce fighting, then there is cause for concern, “stressed the president of FAPE.
Syria is the most dangerous country for journalists, according to Reporters Without Borders, which states that since 2011, at least 44 journalists have died in that country, where also three Spanish journalists were kidnapped for several months.
On March 30, 2014 were released the journalist of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Javier Espinosa, and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, who had been kidnapped in Syria six months ago by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL), then just happen to be called Islamic State (EI).
On September 4, 2013 also had been captured in Syria by the same group reporter Spanish newspaper El Periodico de Catalunya, Marc Marginedas, who was released on March 2, 2014 and returned immediately to Barcelona.
The war in Syria, which began with a harshly repressed peaceful demonstrations, has caused more than 230,000 dead since March 2011.
Forces of the regime of Bashar al-Assad rebels, Kurds and jihadists is facing an increasingly fragmented territory.
On Tuesday, at least 18 civilians were killed and dozens injured by the firing of a “ground-ground missile” of the forces of the Syrian regime against Aleppo, an NGO reported
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