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Kidnapped Reporters Face Challenges After Ordeal

BBC employees celebrate the release of kidnapped correspondent Alan Johnston.
BBC employees celebrate the release of kidnapped correspondent Alan Johnston.

BBC reporter Alan Johnston is free after 114 days of captivity.

Johnston was snatched off a street in Gaza by Islamic militants in March. But what is next for him? And what have other kidnapped journalists done after their captivity ended?

Chris Hedges went back to work in a conflict zone. Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was captured by the Republican Guards in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War in 1991 and held for eight days.

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Hedges' latest book is American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.

He talks to Alex Cohen from his home in New Jersey.

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