Digital Life - Syria holding reporter at center of Twitter campaign

Sherman Wilcox wilcox at unm.edu
Thu May 5 14:03:58 UTC 2011


Dear fellow FunkNetters,

Some of you may have seen this story about the captured Al Jazeera 
reporter Dorothy Parvaz:

http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/05/04/6585986-syria-holding-reporter-at-center-of-twitter-campaign

Dorothy is the sister of Dan Parvaz. Dan is a doctoral student in 
linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Dan works as a 
computational linguist at Mitre Corporation. The family is asking people 
to contact the Syrian government and politely request her release. For 
people in the US, the Syrian Embassy in Washington DC contact 
information is: as1 at syrembassy.net or by phone 202-232-6313 ext. 139

Thank you for your help,
-- 
Sherman Wilcox
Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 871131



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