{"id":195240,"date":"2007-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195240"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:58:12","slug":"auto-insert-195240","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195240\/","title":{"rendered":"Release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston abducted in Gaza – SecGen statement – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SECRETARY-GENERAL, RELIEVED AT FREEING OF BBC CORRESPONDENT, CALLS<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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FOR EARLIEST RELEASE OF OTHERS SIMILARLY ABDUCTED, DETAINED<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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The following statement was issued yesterday, 4 July, by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Secretary-General is profoundly relieved at the release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston after his ordeal of 16 weeks in captivity in Gaza.<\/p><\/div>\n

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He pays tribute to Mr. Johnston’s dignity and resilience in captivity.  He acknowledges the work of all parties concerned in securing Mr. Johnston’s release — a crucial reminder of the need to protect not only the freedom, but also the security and safety, of the media around the world.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Secretary-General calls for the earliest release, without conditions, of those abducted and detained in similar circumstances.<\/p><\/div>\n

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SECRETARY-GENERAL, RELIEVED AT FREEING OF BBC CORRESPONDENT, CALLS FOR EARLIEST RELEASE OF OTHERS SIMILARLY ABDUCTED, DETAINED The following statement was issued yesterday, 4 July, by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is profoundly relieved at the release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston after his ordeal of 16 weeks in captivity in Gaza. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2433,1329,3205,1338],"document-source":[5352,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,1857,2145],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542,6541],"class_list":["post-195240","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-french-text","document-category-press-release","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-public-information","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english","document-language-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/195240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/195240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=195240"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=195240"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=195240"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=195240"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=195240"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=195240"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=195240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}