BAGHDAD, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- An international journalists' advocacy group has mounted a campaign to step up pressure on Iraqi kidnappers to release U.S. reporter Jill Carroll.
The Reporters Without Borders group said two of its representatives will travel to the headquarters of the Arabic al-Jazeera television network in Doha, Qatar, and al-Arabiya in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, "to help relaunch the campaign together with the Arab media."
Tuesday, a videotape of Carroll dated last Saturday was aired on al-Jazeera showing Carroll sobbing, but without sound, which the journalists' group said was "extremely disturbing to watch," CNN reported.
"We appeal to news media throughout the world, especially the Arab world, and to Muslim leaders to continue speaking out in support of Carroll," the group said in a news release.
Also Tuesday night, a group calling itself Supporters of God's Unity and Sunna Brigades released a second videotape of two kidnapped German engineers, threatening to kill the men if the German government doesn't cut ties with Iraq.
