UNITY Calls for Release of Al Jazeera Journalist Dorothy Parvaz
Dorothy Parvaz 6 May 2011 14:00 Africa/Lagos UNITY Calls for Release of Al Jazeera Journalist Dorothy Parvaz PR Newswire MCLEAN, Va., May 6, 2011 MCLEAN, Va., May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UNITY: Journalists of Color is calling on the government of Syria to release Al Jazeera reporter Dorothy Parvaz and allow her to continue her important work in the country. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110506/DC97026 ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110310/DC62460LOGO ) Parvaz, a former reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a 2009 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, was apparently detained shortly after arriving in Damascus on Friday to cover anti-government protests in the country. Al Jazeera has been told by Syrian officials that they're holding Parvaz. She is a citizen of the United States, Canada and Iran. She joined Al Jazeera in 2010. UNITY joins the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and other m...