Woman's Work: The Twisted Reality Of An Italian Freelancer In Syria

For Freelancers In Syria, Only Blood Counts
HOULA, SYRIA - 27 MAY 2012: Alex Thomson (L) chief international correspondent for British Channel 4 News seen in flack jacket and helmet ,stands next to Catalina Gomez Angel a Colombian journalist based in the middle east while covering the clashes on May 27 ,2012 in Houla,Syria. The massacre on May 26, 2012, which claimed the lives of many children, has been blamed on the government of President Bashar al-Assad by the west and Arab states. The al-Assad government however are placing the blame for friday's atrocity on rebel forces. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
HOULA, SYRIA - 27 MAY 2012: Alex Thomson (L) chief international correspondent for British Channel 4 News seen in flack jacket and helmet ,stands next to Catalina Gomez Angel a Colombian journalist based in the middle east while covering the clashes on May 27 ,2012 in Houla,Syria. The massacre on May 26, 2012, which claimed the lives of many children, has been blamed on the government of President Bashar al-Assad by the west and Arab states. The al-Assad government however are placing the blame for friday's atrocity on rebel forces. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

He finally wrote to me. after more than a year of freelancing for him, during which I contracted typhoid fever and was shot in the knee, my editor watched the news, thought I was among the Italian journalists who’d been kidnapped, and sent me an email that said: “Should you get a connection, could you tweet your detention?”

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