MADRID were to put the focus where few dare. Syria wanted to go to show the human drama behind the civil war in that country and the siege of the terrorist group Islamic State. That came on July 10 to Aleppo. So they disappeared two days later.
Angel Sastre, which lives in Buenos Aires, Jose Manuel Lopez and Antonio Pampliega are the three Spanish journalists working under the “freelance” and went together to Syria from southern Turkey on July 10, as they had in 2013.
Today, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said that Spain is working “in full swing” to find the three journalists, of whom nothing is known for ten days.
The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, said the journalists were taken eight days ago by a group of masked men “with Afghan dress,” which moved to an unknown place.
The head of the Syrian opposition group, which is headquartered in London, said the last time he was seen was in an area controlled by the <"photo-pillared" figure class => rebels in an eastern district of the city of Aleppo.
Angel Sastre
Canelas Angel Sastre lives in Buenos Aires, the base from which covers news from Latin America to the newspaper La Razon, Onda Cero and Four, in Spain, for which He works as a collaborator. However, his passion is coverage from conflict zones, which performs as freelance.
Sastre, Extremadura and 35, focused his work of the last two years in Syria and Iraq, both epicenter countries to jihadist Islamic State.
“If you go to Syria, are exposed from that walk to you kidnap or kill you”
“If you go to Syria, are exposed from that walk to you kidnap or kill you,” Sastre said in an interview with the Association Press of Madrid (APM) published in January 2014. There, he said, “journalists work in extreme danger from the moment you step on the country you are a military or economic purpose and can kidnap you. Since you enter the country, there are people looking for you to kidnap you. It causes a feeling of claustrophobia and fear “.
Sastre also made notes and documentary to denounce violations of human rights from countries such as Ukraine, Qatar, Panama, Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela.
“I walk with my camera throughout Latin America and other areas of conflict. Heartbroken between Latin America and the Middle East “, he describes himself in his Twitter account. In this network, your last post is from July 10, when he wrote from Turkey the word” courage “in Spanish, French and Arabic.
In 2010, the Spanish journalist received the APM Larra Prize for journalists under 30 years and has covered political and social events for media as the defunct television station CNN +, Telecinco and the <"photo-pillared" figure class => confidential.
Antonio Pampliega
Antonio Pampliega is Madrid, is 33 years old and since 2008 runs a” world war “, as he himself explains in his blog.
He traveled through Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Haiti, Honduras, Syria, Somalia and South Sudan.
Good connoisseur of the Middle East, has traveled several times to Syria and has reported on the conflict for newspapers like El Mundo, El Pais, Public, La Voz de Galicia, Neupic, channels like BBC, CNN, Four, and international news agencies. In addition, he published the book The life beyond the battle, about his experiences as a war correspondent in Afghanistan.
“I’m going to war knowing that I die “
His recent works include two documentaries hard on the jihadist war in Syria issued by the channel Four Spanish. “I’m going to war knowing that I die. But I choose, because I understand journalism as a commitment and my commitment here is with the Syrians because I have saved many times,” said Pampliega.
When he traveled to Syria in 2013, he met his US counterpart James Foley, beheaded by Islamic State in a video that shocked the world. Pampliega published an article in the diario.es to honor his friend, in which he said:. “Jim showed us all that our work is even above our own lives and our loved ones”
Jose Manuel Lopez
The photojournalist Jose Manuel Lopez, a leonine 44, accumulates a long career as a war correspondent working through the accusation of injustice for which he has received many awards.
Just three weeks ago received the Photography Award Marco Luchetta an image of Somali children playing in the ruins of Mogadishu.
After eleven years working in the middle Chronicle Leon, Lopez devoted himself to making human stories and follow the most pressing international conflicts as a photojournalist freelance full time. A passion for the image that has taken him to Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Lebanon, Palestine, Kosovo, Guatemala and Ukraine, among other destinations.
“I would think that my work can help improve the lives of people I photograph “
In the past two years has focused on the war Syria, the conflict in South Sudan, Somalia or Iraq as a regular contributor to the Agence France-Presse (AFP).
He has published his photographs in the media as important as The New York Times, The Guardian , Le Monde, El País and Der Sipiegel.
“I’m focused on issues that deal with social conflict and injustice in the world, and I like to think that my work can help improve life people that I photograph, “he said of himself in place.
Agencies EFE, DPA .
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