CBC journos rally in support of BBC reporter

CBC Television anchor Peter Mansbridge speaks at rally (Robin Rowland/CBC)

Hundreds of CBC staff and colleagues from other news organizations gathered Thursday in Toronto to mark the 60th day of BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston’s captivity and make an impassioned plea for his immediate release.

The crowd filled the sun-drenched Simcoe Place outside the CBC building on Front Street over the noon hour to express their solidarity with Johnston, who was kidnapped at gunpoint near his Gaza City home on March 12.

Johnston, the only Western journalist living in Gaza at the time of his capture, has not been seen or heard from since. The 44-year-old reporter had been working in the turbulent region for three years.

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