/ 9 January 2001

MEDIA GROUP SEEKS MISSING REPORTERS

INTERNATIONAL media watchdog Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) is sending a delegation to Algeria next week to investigate the case of five missing journalists and launch a media awareness campaign to try to uncover their fate. RSF says it is practically certain that two were kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and three by the state between 1994-1997. RSF noted that about 50 media professionals had been killed in Algeria between 1993 and 1996. – Reuters