Anhar of a nomadic biography
The journalist Kochnev escaped from the hands of the rebels in Syria a signature to the photo, Kochnev claimed that the Syrian rebels were not interested in dialogue with the authorities on March 11, journalist Anhar Kochnev, abducted by Syrian militants, fled from captivity on Monday. Kochneva is in Damascus and has already contacted the Ukrainian embassy, reports Interfax-Ukraine.
We talked on the phone for a couple of minutes. She said that people brought her to Damascus, ”the agency quotes a relative of journalist Dmitry Astafurov. According to Astafurov, the state of health of Kochneva is satisfactory. The citizen of Ukraine Anhar Kochneva worked as a free -sized correspondent of the Russian information portal Morning. The planned escape told RIA Novosti, she was kept in one of the southern suburbs.
Homs, and she was a captive of the head of the military council of the SSA in this region.
According to RT with reference to Kochneva’s husband, the journalist managed to independently get out of the house where the militants held her, after which she disappeared from the pursuers in the mountains and went more than 15 kilometers, until she found people who helped her reach the territory controlled by the government forces. The stolen journalist says that she planned and escaped captivity.
Anhar Kochneva also said that "she risked very terribly," as she walked through the fields that could be mined. The militants stated threats and demands in the December of the year in a video message about the intention to kill a journalist, which they called a “spy from Ukraine” if they did not receive a ransom of $ 50 million, and also threatened the attack on the embassies of Ukraine and Russia.
The international organization "Reporters without borders" expressed deep concern of threats by militants, urging the free Syrian army and the country's opposition coalition to release a journalist. Ukraine also called on the Syrian authorities to make more active efforts to free the journalist. The official statement of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry emphasized that if any harm is caused by a nomadic, its abductors will inevitably be called to the answer.
The Ukrainian journalist consistently advocated the official Syrian authorities. According to Kochneva, Syria authorities are ready for dialogue, but the opposite side is not interested in it. In a video message published on November 28, Anhar Kochneva said that she arrived in Syria on fake documents and worked for Russian special services, engaged in the transfer of negotiations of one of the Russian officers with his Syrian colleagues.
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