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LONDON (Reuters) - Reuters correspondent Suleiman al-Khalidi was released by Syrian authorities on Friday, three days after he was detained in Damascus.
A week after Syria expelled another Reuters foreign correspondent, Khalidi was set free to cross...
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Fri Apr 1, 2011 11:14am EDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Reuters correspondent Suleiman al-Khalidi was released by Syrian authorities on Friday, three days after he was detained in Damascus.
A week after Syria expelled another Reuters foreign correspondent, Khalidi was set free to cross back into Jordan, where he is based, shortly after 4 p.m. (1400 GMT).
But Reuters had still had no contact with photographer Khaled al-Hariri, a Syrian based in Damascus, since he disappeared in the capital four days ago. He was last seen arriving at work on Monday morning.
A Syrian official has said authorities were working to establish what had happened to him.
Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler said: "Thomson Reuters is relieved that Suleiman is now free and has returned home.
"However, we remain deeply concerned about the whereabouts of Khaled and call upon the Syrian authorities again to help ensure his safe and timely return."
Khalidi, a Jordanian who covered unrest which broke out in the Syrian city of Deraa two weeks ago, has worked for Reuters for more than 20 years, in Jordan, Kuwait, Syria and Iraq. Hariri has worked in Syria for Reuters for more than 20 years.
Earlier in the week, two Reuters journalists from Lebanon were detained in Damascus and held incommunicado for two days before being released and expelled on Monday.
Reuters correspondent Khaled Yacoub Oweis, a Jordanian who had been based in Damascus for five years, was expelled from Syria last Friday for what a Syrian official described as his "unprofessional and false" coverage of events.
Reuters said it stood by its coverage from Syria, where the protests have posed the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's 11-year rule.
A number of Arab governments facing unaccustomed public opposition have taken action against the media this year.
On Wednesday, the Libyan government expelled a Reuters correspondent from Tripoli. Two weeks earlier, Saudi Arabia expelled the Reuters foreign correspondent from Riyadh.
Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, said: "We documented over 300 individual attacks on journalists throughout the Middle East in the last several months and that's a conservative number.
"Circumstances differ in each case; repressive police action; attacks against individuals; but the aim is always the same -- to confront and control journalists trying to provide independent accounts in the country and to the world.
"That's what we're seeing across the region and Syria."
(Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
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