Risking It All: Al Jazeera Journalist Missing in Syria

Posted by Shirley Brady on May 2, 2011 03:00 PM

On one of its highest-rated days, Al Jazeera's new series, titled Risking it All, debuts tonight.

Reiterating that theme, the network is demanding the safe return of Dorothy Parvaz, one of its journalists (and a former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter), who has been missing since landing in Damascus on Friday, and is believed to have been detained at the airport as she never checked into her hotel.

Here is how the network announced its demands to Syrian officials today:

More about: Al Jazeera, Media, TV, Osama bin Laden, Dorothy Parvaz, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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