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Good news 3 reporters released from Vietnam, Algeria & Syria

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on 13th of December announced some good news for once in a long while

It is with great relief that we can report the recent release of three journalists. After many months of harrowing detention, these three journalists have finally been reunited safe and sound with their families.

We would like to thank all of you who supported our campaigning on their behalf because, without your backing and your commitment, none of this would have been possible. Each of these releases was a message of hope, and we will continue to fight for the release of all the other journalists all over the world who are still in prison.

Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh (Vietnam)

For blogging under the pen name of “Mother Mushroom,” she spent a total of two years and seven days in Vietnamese prisons. Sentenced to ten years in prison on 29 June 2017, after eight months in solitary confinement, she was finally freed on 17 October of this year and was put on a flight to the United States, where is now lives in exile with her mother and her two children.

4.-Saïd-Chitour-Algeria Good news 3 reporters released from Vietnam, Algeria & Syria — Saïd Chitour

Saïd Chitour (Algeria)

Saïd is finally free after languishing in El Harrach prison for 16 months. This fixer and stringer for many leading international media outlets was clearly in very poor health when released on 11 November. He was wrongfully accused of “complicit relations with a foreign power” for allegedly handing confidential documents to foreign diplomats “with the aim of harming national security.”

5.-Jumpei-Yasuda-Syria-rsf-Japanese-Journalist-Free Good news 3 reporters released from Vietnam, Algeria & Syria — Jumpei Yasuda

Jumpei Yasuda (Syria)
This Japanese journalist was finally released on 19 October after being held hostage in Syria for three years. An Islamist armed group abducted him in June 2015 while he was trying to investigate Islamic State’s murder of fellow Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. The very relieved Jumpei has been reunited safe and sound with his family after a terrible ordeal.

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