Marie Jeanne Ion

Marie Jeanne Ion (born 1972) is a Romanian journalist for Prima TV, taken hostage in Iraq on March 28 2005, along with Sorin Mişcoci, Eduard Ohanesian and Mohammad Munaf. The hostage-takers were the Mouadh Ibn Jabal Brigade, who demanded the retreat of the 860 Romanian troops in Iraq in return for their release. They were freed on May 22, except for Mohammad Munaf, who was arrested and sentenced to death by an Iraqi court.

External links

• Romanian journalists freed - IFEX

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