0 im melissa chair and im guest hosting martha and you know kate is away for a few days today well be talking about the computer protect journalists latest Campaign Missing and 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 reached 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. Their mother used. d to. Show us the documents of units or was it due to. Go missing because of that or. Welcome pierre yet. My name is. Not enough and i have been working as a report. Editor for you what should you watch will only d d one of the sioux independence me just still operating in the country. And. I also. d did a lot of stories about being in the disappearance of the missing journalists and i believe the time to talk. Absolutely and hunted please tell us about yourself thank you for having me in my name as i am and theres a better toe matter now if you had since he was affairs the only photograph yards unseen iraq we are supporting for those who are not let us in on the country and also we have a next 4 or 70 more than 74 tons on offices 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 one we are coming here and celebrating the commercial. Disappearance of the 70 s. And also. d just. 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 its like Islamic State not really. Syria or libya the more and a lot of the focus that we as an Organization Today than. President of the law is of cases of killed journalists and imprisoned journalists continue to exist but at least as of last year the numbers of illegal immigrants. Who are in prison until it. We saw this this is a good time to also. Work was you in a situation will have been it was also the fall d in pieces of can say journalist and those consulates but now. For. Those who specifically cover this appearance cases who said that agenda for their own boy in the film on its leash and then this to gay should 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 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 in 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 in 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 a reader and george said their brother samir disappeared in syria in 2013 take a look he has always been the big brother whos of course this family he has. Theyre all more good for. The. 2. From has started to hood. Making photography like money money is you didnt find that question. So he decided to travel and try it in another country the water for sky in yours where he phoned to. Prove himself as a professional of photojournalism. A lot of. What he wanted he was going for. Despite he carried on with. Forethought and 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 in the kidnapping is something that i just heard from your movies before 2014. Coming on this appear 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 of our good as a result of finding my brother 1st of all who as a brother also a doormat was. Told so many photographs of our forums are not as them and us in 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 the whole or part of the my rover if you are looking through the force of the government and. Some of the terms of. And i want to take this opportunity right now and there to show the website. 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 is 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 watching. So we heard reports of his possible we seeing and later on revolts of beaten up duction and docs many compose saying that it was d done by the engines of. The D Secret Service or the Intelligence Service of the government or were only saw. Their job to get him on and then you watch to try to tool to conduct its own investigation to find out exactly and hes aware while its a bit we would not make it we know we went to the initial d commission for human rights and tried to do its going to get a geisha and the police tried to say that it did what it might do but on syria now nobody can tell exactly what the journalist he saw we have done a lot more kind of remember i 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 its. 2 children 2 boys a witch of course and unfortunately because of mild supports raids decided to try 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 counter went missing more than 1400 days and i also think its important to show people the im going to show everyone at the front page of the english language landing page of you what you because it gives you a sense of what kind of journalism was being 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 journalists 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 sound father and has from the get go 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. Are to. Go. Just. For the. Race. War. We are the. Program and. And the war. Will be one day. I learned the ownership and im a journalist more than 80 years ago my colleague one of the one of the always have dr mark 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 mahmoud him on seeing 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 asking you that question 1st. Sure were. Caught in the military conflict is musician up with records on a lot of trading and a lot of safety guidelines we see p. J. Would try to pull for example. Before anyone else goes to risky to get one of the luxury of accountability to rule of law including prosecution again as the traitors of attacks against all of us and. Not just prison and gentleness and killing them methods. Of. Jugglers who impede left in syria and just as an untold riches of and 13 there were more than 100 case of kidnapping and see if you took advantage to show how unprecedented the level of press corps and that helped a lot of people who are working on safety including. Safety for freelance and local journalists for 2 genres who do not have an umbrella of support from an employer or a local support to get more information on some of them for example in syria and we have at least 60 journalists escape to safety from angela been 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 i didnt have to be on it. Well to be honest d i must say. It was hard it was a hard reality to rise to. 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 as. It came as a for as its raised 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 that way were supposed to be doing it 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 try to conduct an investigation the government it seems to be not much more important 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 sport class in germany to start studying music and i was far away from journalism i was helping come around because in 2005 cameron was taking photos in kirkuk he covered one of the explosion and he formed his eyes and see and said i have a horror of 15 people die right now and i want to send it to you to be published and i didnt he said sorry camera we are not going to take your story today because we do have another story from walsall that 35 People Killed and many more injured but one of the one of their accountability is going back to the News Agencies that made the journalists as to cover the bloody side of situations and thats why mr graff you found that come in and said what about the have units are out of iraq of course they are going to cover all the negative side ball and all the others but what about our civilization what about covering the beauty thats why in 2008 and 9 with several other american cofounder they made literally half it and i was a witness in what can one trying to do all the photo journalist as we are trying and they were convincing each other to get the bloody a photo and if i go on leave back to government and their organization they are north of 14 journalists or look protected them what about the news. And says that there always are ordering the bloody for us so we were trying to a convent to show the different sides and i still remember when one of our photo story was not about exclusion publishing c. N. N. And other we were celebrating it so thats why i left my gear on a star the director of this eyes and see a number of proud of it. And there something very special and different when local journalists report on the story and schieffer i want to just go back to this campaign and then a little kerry as has there been successful cases where missing journalists have been found and what were the things that you believe really helped. A lot of the good pieces of cases of journalists who disappear maybe. The. Most of the 100 is that of. In syria or many of them are in the u. S. And any more. Fortunately most of the cases we documented proposal less in some terms stay in code for the kids surety of that is a. Recent cases have been since. But there are cases to wave to the. Civil war in the ninetys and some 2 in early 20 that in iraq and also cases more of just not even try and their meaning 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. Stories that are not told 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 i met a chance to tell the viewers what can they do what can people do in each of their respective cases a colleague and a Family Member to have been lost here 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 our us and 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 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 had a voice can reach far and bend to journalism saw our deal for each and everybody with the upolu to to do whatever it takes to protect journalists wherever they are because they are the lights of the world. Atm and whats your message to everyone. Up to the situation in iraq. The feeling my feel of friends and put on others is as they did they should be the people that bring the news not trying to be the news or not affected by their not having education by Security Forces so when you are in frontline you are alone and no one is going to protest in your while there are so many politic of artists they have to like the Security Forces so you are not on. The force and you will get support in the 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 one 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 ill see you next time. Frank assessments. 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