Still think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the aljazeera. I know im melissa chair and im guest hosting marvel you know katie is away for a few days today will be talking about the computer protect journalists latest Campaign Missing not forgotten and learn about the stories of some of these reporters from people who know them as always on you to please post your comments and questions so that you too can plug into the stream. Welcome to our guest today he she remains here at the net and im going to ask each of you introduce yourself to everyone well start with sharif with that committee to protect journalists. Thank you would a much for me to do their mother used. To do. With an executed storm isnt due to the. Kidnapping and those who are missing because of the war welcome pierre and yet. My name is. Not enough and i have been working as a report. Editor for you watch the news you watch will only d d one of the suit independence me just still operating in the d country. And. I also. Did a lot of stories about being in the disappearance of that missing journalist and i believe. Absolutely and 100 ed please tell us about yourself thank you for having me and my name is im on the money doing that or toe matter garfield since he was is the fairest come only photograph yards unseen iraq we are supporting for those who are not with us in all the country and also who have a next 4 or 70 more than 74 hours or novices in iraq or the savita. Thanking you and welcome sharif im going to start with you tell us about this campaign and why youre doing it right now. Well there are similarly isms in one way or coming here in celebrating the commercial. Disappearance of the oldest city and and also. d trying to shed only. Needed peel but a lot of those who are who waited until a lot of. The conflicts the military confrontation in the middle east. And then instead since like islamics the not really. Syria libya. And a lot of the focus that we as an Organization Today than. President of the law is of cases of pill drawn or lists and imprisoned journalists continue to exist but at least as of last year the numbers of illegal immigrants. Who are in prison and. We saw this this is a good time to also. Work was you in a situation will have been it was also the fall busy in cases of can say journalist and those consulates busy but now. Theyre not clear to. Those who specifically covered this appearance cases who said that agenda for their own boy in the film on its leash and then this to gay shit and confluence. And the m. And. S. Mandate to operate on to try and bring those asian even though the local context. And i also want to at this point show everyone the website for the committee to protect journalists and the section related specifically to this campaign here you can see 64 journalists missing all over the world with a lots of red in the middle east section but also you can see in america mexico is another place where a lot of journalists go missing and if you are curious you can scroll down and do a search where you can see also the names of the journalists and you can click and learn about their bios take a closer look at 1000 journalists missing in iraq lebanon and syria in 2020 years also a very handy as well where you can pull it up and look at where the us have been in this ng. I also wanted to get this opportunity at this time to show a video clip that the committee to protect journalists have put out and this is from rita and george their brother samir disappeared in syria in 2013 take a look he has always been the big brother who supports us family he has. The rule more for. The. 2. From has started to hood. Making photography like money money is. He didnt find that question. So he decided to travel and try it in another country he was. In yours where he phoned to meet the group himself as a profession of. Journalism. A lot of. What he what he was going for. Despite he carried on. For a photo journalism but did not think was the last thing he would ever think of performing. His mission his job. Your brother a camera that was captured by isis and has been missing for more than 6 years before i ask you more about him i want to show a clip its an audio clip from him about why he does what he does. I always have thought that i have something a little bit more different not more important i cant say this but differ and what they ask for me. I meant my question is do you ever expect accountability after 6 years and how what kind of resolution do you hope for. The war will disappear and the kidnapping is something that i just heard from your movies before 2014 to come in and disappear its going to be. 6 years on how well everyday living with this war so if you dont. Barack to this time were disappearing and thinking now theres a big difference between the whole in 2014 the expectation that they heard also what i got as a result of finding my brother 1st of all who as a brother also a journalist. Told so many photographs of our form of journalism and us pushing all of us to show the pretty side of iraq like as a part of the coverage of the making of the accountability also of the result i can say some believe that i cant see any hope of finding my brother if you are looking through the force of the government and. Some of the of their own decisions. And i want to take this opportunity right now ahmed to show the website of graffiti this is the news agency that was started by your brother and that you continue to work on today as the director and this is their main page and i encourage people to also check out their instagram because there are some amazing pictures the work of local journalists in iraq not people from outside of iraq coming in and taking pictures. Now i want to turn to pierre here you were a work colleague of John Bigirimana in broome the one of the few independent news rooms there tell us what happened. Well. First of all i need to say it was obviously the man i was. Kind of newly recruited by the watch d before he was working for another another reused. Who is believed to be close to the d ruling r. T. C. And the f. T. C. So shortly after its you days he got recruited by you what should. So we heard reports of his possible we seeing and later on rebuilt to be enough duction and docs many compose saying that it was d done by the engines of. The D Secret Service or the Intelligence Service d of the government or were only saw our job to get him on and then. Try the tool to conduct its own investigation to find out exactly and hes whereabouts a bit we would not make it we know when we went to the initial commission for human rights and he tried to do if the Investigation Police tried to say that it did what it might do but on syria now nobody can tell exactly where the journalist is so all we have done a lot more kind of remember who came in watch of from 10 to 16 on syria now but to date nobody knows his whereabouts and the majority of us we lost or and we say he was killed he is dead because we know nothing about him and he was married and hates. 2 children 2 boys a witch of course and unfortunately because of mother supports raids decided right to leave the country yeah and now they are not in the country. And of course on the website there is a page dedicated to your colleague John Bigirimana and a town or went missing more than 1400 days and i also think its important to show people the im going to show everyone the front page of the english language landing page of you are because it gives you a sense of what kind of journalism has been done this independent news youre going to take a look at the headlines governments youve support raises concerns to economists and heres another one look opposition disappointed by the new cabinet so you can well imagine why there were people who felt threatened by the journalist in this news room now the cases of John Bigirimana and. Cameron are not the only ones of course and this stream reached out to speak to colleagues and Family Members of other reporters whove gone missing please have a listen. In september 2001 my uncle seem to hire who was a journalist was in prison without a trial in eritrea 1000 years later we have seen no information about his conditions as whereabouts about why he wasnt present he has received a day in trial or any kind of justification for us and president and i fight for his release for several reasons one of the reasons is because he deserves justice as an individual another reason is because his family deserves justice and they deserve to see their loved you know brother of sound father and has from again and thirdly because his imprisonment was not just an isolated event there was a part of their 2 regimes planned to silence their action people. Go. Just. For the. Race. War. And. The war. Will be one day. I learned the ownership and im a journalist and im all the more than 8 years ago my colleague one of the one of the always have dr martin so in his apartment at knifepoint the government at the time refused to investigate the in the disappearance and we have evidence that some government officials were involved in the cover up that it wasnt just reminds disappearance but there are. Attacks torching the media offices and to this day there has been knowledge justice for all these crimes against journalists. And there you 2 community has responded we have here are for example asif mahmood imaan singh lots of journalists are missing from bangladesh issue and then just master flags saying that laws against kidnapping already exist people who do this do not care and heres it interesting question from sudanese freetown whats the best tool for protecting the journalist in the conflict area as well as we have to think about why so many governments in africa and other Countries Worldwide do this im going to go to sharif and ask me that question 1st. Sure were. Caught in the military conflict is a lot of musicians with records a lot of trading and a lot of safety guidelines we see p. J. Would try to perform at some of those large lines. Before anyone else goes to skate again and one of the luxury of accountability rule of law including prosecution again is that the traitors of attacks against all those. Not just in prison and gentleness and killing them methods. Of. Jugglers who impede left in syria and just as an untold 1013 there were more than 100 case of kidnappings that we see issue documented to show how unprecedented the level of press cause and that helped a lot of people who work in safety including. Safety for freelancers local journalists for 2 genres who do not have an umbrella of support from an employer or a look and support to get more information and some of them for example in syria and we have at least 60 journalists escape to safety from and to live and surrounding area due to the conflict to europe. Here and what kind of impact did it have been easier on your colleague john disappeared. Well ill check the morning. Well to be honest d i must say. It was hard it was a hard reality to rise to it. Because i actually went up 1st when i jolliest because journalists are supposed to be a family so when you hear how one of your one of your colleagues is reported missing this creates its as if it came as if it is its race to the john its just too in their way that it is hard it was a little bit harder for us to be able to do the work the way were supposed to be doing because most of the attention was on the day i tried to talk to the to his disappearance and we conducted multiple reports about his disappearance but within our hearts it was some kind of grief some kind of group about imagine having somebody missing you dont know his whereabouts and you tried to conduct an investigation the government it seems to be not much more involved and this is you understand that we really are kind of but feelings. Im struck because peer mentioned that journalism and journalists are kind of like a family and here you didnt start out being the journalist your brother was the journalist and hes continued to do what he used to do you know is that one reason why youre driven to continue to run to try to feed. Actually 2014 i was trying to get out of my class in germany to start studying music and i was far away from journalism i was helping cameron because in 2005 when cameron was taking photos in kirkuk he the cover its one of the explosion and he phoned his identity and said i have a photo of their 15 people died right now and i want to see the 2 years to be published and i does he says sorry cameron we are not going to take your story today because we do have another story from mosul that 35 People Killed and many more injured but one of the the one of that accountability is going back to the nude id insist that i made a journalist as to cover the bloodiest side of the situation and thats why mr graef is found thats come out and said what about the abuse side of iraq of course we are going to cover all the negative 5 balls and all the others but what about our civilization what about covering the beauty thats what in 2008 or 9 was ever other american cofounder they made little graphic and i was witness in what come on trying to do all the photojournalists as were trying and they were competent each other to get the blood here for us and if i go only back to government and the organization does that im not supporting the journalists are not protecting them what about the need. That there always are or during the bloody 4 or so we were trying to convince and to show the different size and i still remember when one of our quarter a story where it was not about a solution publishing c. N. N. And other we were celebrating it so thats why i left my curia on the star been a director of this i dont see and im really proud of it. And there something very special and different when local journalists report on the story schieffer i want to just go back to this campaign and a little carious has there been successful cases where missing journalists have been found and what were the things that you believe really helped. Well a lot of the good cases are cases of journalists who disappear maybe. The. Most of the 100 is that of qaeda. In syria or many of them are recent or any more. Than fortunately most of the cases we documented for those missing some terms say code for the kids surety of that is. Recent cases have incidents. But there are cases to wave to the. Civil war in the ninetys and some 2 in early 20. 00 that in iraq and also cases more of the sort of that we cannot even try and their meaning to leads to our current ability. Of our what i want to say is the hope is the u. N. Mechanisms but also. A lot of the Diplomatic Community and cross and other International Organizations will continue to press the local initiatives so for people to continue to demand the film it is. To defend the Broader Authority and of censorship. In stories that are not all because people are afraid to go missing. So they dont even cover those too. Yes the hash tag is missing not forgotten we are getting nearer to the end of the show and i want to give pierre and ahmed a chance to tell the viewers what 10 days due what can people do in each of their respective cases of a colleague and a Family Member that happened last year what is your message to everyone i met my my my most Important Message is to their family to degenerate to their family which is composed of journalists in general well i should tell them is we should not be afraid we should do our work despite multiple 3. Against ours aims in that thing i would just call on the government or i mean the people who are close to the government not just to take journalists is the enemies of the country journalist into the building of the nation and being a journalist is not a crime journalist here journalism has never been a crime its arrived the way of rwanda reinforcing 3 dawn of expression and by so doing everybody can have a talk everybody can feel they belong to the world because they idea that they voice can reach far and bend to journalism saw our deal for each and everybody with the up to 2 to do whatever it takes to protect journalists wherever they are because the at the lights of the world. Atman whats your message to everyone. To the situation in iraq. The still in my philo friends and the photojournalists of their lives should be the people that the very near us north trying to be the nearest or are affected by. Not having huge addition by Security Forces so when you are in front line you are alone and no one is going to protect in your while there are so many politic of artists they have improved like a Security Forces so you are a lot on her. Or you will hear support in a future. Care i have met and sharif think you so much for joining us today and i would be remiss if we didnt mention al jazeera as all on journalist Mahmoud Hussein who has been detained in egypt hes not missing hes been detained in egypt for more than 1300 days theres his challenger and his web site free man weve seen dot com if youd like to know more thats it for now thank you so much for watching and well see you next time. On mexicos busy roads there are those whove had enough. Cyclists are taking to the streets on mass. Their objective to make the streets safer alternative cleaner forms of transportation but will it prove to be an uphill struggle for this group of activists over the wheel do you find on aljazeera. 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