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This is an archive article published on May 19, 2011
Syria releases Al Jazeera journalist
Dorothy Parvaz has been released nearly 3 weeks after she went missing in Damascus.
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Dorothy Parvaz,a journalist working for Doha-based Al Jazeera television network,has been released nearly three weeks after she went missing in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The Al Jazeera network confirmed in a statement that she had been released and was safe and in good health. She was in Damascus to cover the ongoing protests.
Parvaz left Doha for Syria on April 29,but lost contact with her family or her employer heard from the 39-year-old after she disembarked from a Qatar Airways flight in Damascus.
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There was a massive online mobilisation calling for the journalist’s release. Dorothy joined Al Jazeera in 2010.
She graduated from the University of British Columbia,completed a master’s degree in Arizona,and held journalism fellowships at both Harvard and Cambridge.
Parvaz previously worked as a columnist and feature writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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