Frontline Blog: Canadian hostage in Somalia reported to have called CTV
June 12th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism, Press freedom and ethics
It’s a case about which we know very little information. The Frontline Blog reports on what appears to be the latest communication with the journalists held in Somalia since August 2008: Canadian freelance Amanda Lindhout and Australian freelance Nigel Brennan. It is reported that Lindhout called the CTV national newsroom this week, stating that she is ‘kept in a dark, windowless room in chains without any clean drinking water and little food or no food. I’ve been very sick for months without any medicine.’
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