Ägna en minut åt Ajmal Naqshbandi

NEW YORK Jag är mörbultad efter att ha skrivit sju miljoner artiklar – känns det som – om muscovadomousse och framväxten av sedvanerättsliga principer.

Därför får ni här en text om en saknad, afghansk journalist, som haft många fixer-uppdrag för utländska journalister (=utsätter sig för risker). Viktig läsning!

Informationen kommer från amerikanska Committee to Protect Journalists, en organisation liknande Reportrar utan gränser.
Det är tydligen ovanligt att de gör sådana här utskick, och jag tänkte att jag kan sprida budskapet åtminstone till mina bloggläsare. Och har ni inget bättre för er kan ni ju skriva till afghanska ambassadörerna. Har ni något bättre för er?

/Gunilla


CPJ is greatly concerned about the fate of Ajmal Naqshbandi, the Afghan
journalist who was abducted with La Repubblica reporter Daniele
Mastrogiacomo in Helmand about two weeks ago. Daniele is safely back in
Italy, but Ajmal is still missing. Their driver had his throat slit
while they were being held.

We're doing our best to keep Ajmal's case in front of the media, but you
know how hard that it is to do once the story for the Western press has
moved on. For most of them, Ajmal was Daniele's translator, but Ajmal is
an important journalist in his own right --- and by all accounts a fine
person, too. Messages to the Afghan government through its Washington
Embassy and UN Mission might just help him.

We have mailed the message many of the journalists Ajmal has worked with
over the years, but there must be many more on your lists. Many of our
colleagues have said they will contact the Embassy and the Mission, and
they will ask their employers to do the same.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give us.

Bob Dietz
Asia Program Coordinator
Committee to Protect Journalists


Dear Colleagues ---

As of March 21, Ajmal Naqshbandi is still being held, even though
Daniele Mastrogiacomo has been released. The Committee to Protect
Journalists will continue to publicize Ajmal's case (our most recent
release is at http://www.cpj.org/news/2007/asia/afghan20mar07na.html ),
but we all know that it will not receive much media coverage now that
Daniele is safe.

We all know how much we rely on people like Ajmal to do our job. Here is
one small way we can help him.

We are asking you and your employers to call or message the Afghan
Embassy in Washington and the Afghan Mission to the United Nations,
asking the Afghan government to work to secure Ajmal's release.

Here are the contacts. Phone calls and faxes are best:

Ambassador Said T. Jawad

Embassy of Afghanistan
2341 Wyoming Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: 202 483 6410
Fax: 202 483 6488

AND

Dr. Ravan Farhadi,
Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations

360 Lexington Ave

New York, NY 10017

Tel: 212 972 1212

Fax: 212 972 1216


Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Bob Dietz
Asia Program Coordinator
Committee to Protect Journalists
330 Seventh Ave, 11th floor
New York, NY 10001
+1 212 465 1004 ext 140
e-mail: bdietz@cpj.org
www.cpj.org

The Committee to Protect Journalists is a New York-based, nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending press freedom around the
world.