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Missing Al Jazeera journalist

Chloe Tilley Chloe Tilley | 10:12 UK time, Monday, 9 May 2011

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Dorothy Parvaz arrived in Syria just over a week ago to cover the protests against the President Assad regime. In recent weeks reports have been emerging from the country of government troops opening fire on unarmed protestors.

The Al Jazeera journalist was in Damascus on Friday the 29th of April. She has had no contact with the outside world since.

The Syrian government has

She is one of the few foreign journalists who have attempted to enter Syria to cover what's happening there. demanding her release. After the power of social media during the Egyptian uprising, many feel this will exert the necessary pressure on the Syrian authorities

But will it?


CoreyHunt's tweet sums up many

I pray that the bloody #Assad regime releases Al-Jazeera's Dorothy #Parvaz, but let's not forget the THOUSANDS of others #freedorothy

Aside from the personal danger journalists put themselves in to cover this kind of story, it highlights the difficulties news organisations face in covering stories like the violence in Syria.

Here at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ it is very hard to verify reports coming out of the country, with reporters and correspondents having to rely on eye witness accounts, human rights organisations and official information released by the authorities.

has been written by her friend Rosita Boland.

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