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Spain to seek Syrian government help to find journalists

 JournalismPakistan.com |  Published July 23, 2015

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Spain to seek Syrian government help to find journalists

MADRID: Spain said Wednesday that it is trying to establish what happened to three Spanish freelance journalists who went missing around the embattled northern Syrian city of Aleppo. A fourth journalist, a Japanese national, also is presumed missing in Syria.

Justice Minister Rafael Catala told Spain's Cadena SER radio the government had no news regarding the three Spaniards and will contact the government in Damascus over the case. Syrian state media has yet to mention the journalists' disappearance.

A Spanish journalism association first reported on Tuesday that the three — identified as Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre — were missing since July 13. They had traveled to Syria, presumably together, to report on the country's long-running civil war.

The fourth journalist, Japanese freelancer Jumpei Yasuda, also is presumed missing in Syria after being last heard from one month ago.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo told reporters that such cases caused much anxiety "because you have a certain sense of impotence, because you're dependent on the movements of those who have kidnapped our compatriots." So far, the government has not specifically said if it is treating the case as a kidnapping.

Margallo urged "maximum discretion" in the case but called for "tranquility," saying similar situations in the past had ended well for Spain.

Spanish Foreign Minister Margallo said Spain's National Intelligence Center was handling the case and that such cases depended a lot on the movements of other parties involved but added that "all the precedents were good."

With the rise of the Islamic State group and a spate of journalists' abductions starting in mid-2013, most media organizations have opted to stay away from coverage inside Syria because of the unacceptable risk level. Over the last year, it has become rare for any foreign journalists to go into northern Syria, where a myriad of Islamic groups and the more extremist Islamic State and al-Qaida groups rule.

"An effort has been underway since then to search and locate them," a statement from their families said.

Elsa Gonzalez, the president of the Spanish journalism association, said the three Spaniards are experienced journalists who have all worked in Syria before and knew what type of precautions they would need to take.

"They are not newcomers to this kind of work," she said Wednesday.

Yasuda, who has been reporting on the Middle East since 2002, was taken hostage in Iraq in 2004, with three other Japanese, but was freed after Islamic clerics negotiated his release.

Kosuke Tsuneoka, another Japanese freelance reporter, said Wednesday that he received a message from Yasuda in Syria on June 23, but has not heard from him since.

"It is not normal that there has been no contact from him at all," Tsuneoka said in a telephone interview, adding that no one should jump to conclusions about Yasuda's fate.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry said it was aware of the reports but has no confirmed information on Yasuda. The three Spanish journalists entered Syria separately from Yasuda.

Previously, three other Spanish journalists were released in March 2014 after being held hostage by Syrian extremists for months. It is widely believed that their government paid a ransom for their release, although it has not been officially confirmed.

Margallo also told reporters that the government was in constant contact with Spanish Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, which handles Syria. Madrid had also contacted U.N. special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura, who was scheduled to travel from Beirut to Damascus on Wednesday, and embassies of other countries in the region, he added. - AP

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