Southern California Public Radio: "Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo to speak in Los Angeles April 23."
It was a story that shocked the world and an image that shook journalists. It’s a screen grab from Italian RAI state television from 2007. It shows Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his driver Sayed Agha and interpreter Ajmal Naqshbandi kneeling blindfolded before some gun-wielding militants -- members of the Taliban. The next image broadcast was of Agha being beheaded. Then came Mastrogiacomo making an impassioned appeal to Italian authorities to “do something.”
After he was released, Mastrogiacomo held a news conference at the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica” headquarters, detailing two weeks at the hands of people “without culture or human experience.”
Mastrogiacomo has written a book about his ordeal, called " Days of Fear," which has been called "Graphic and harrowing" and “…not only a work of reportage, (but) a journey to the very limits of human experience." He’ll be speaking about it at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura at 1023 Hilgard Avenue Westwood, Los Angeles, on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 6:30pm.
From the IIC’s release: “To escape detection, Mastrogiacomo's captors dragged him from village to village, through opium plantations, along dusty roads and over rugged mountains, from one end of Afghanistan to the other.”
Photo by Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images
After he was released, Mastrogiacomo held a news conference at the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica” headquarters, detailing two weeks at the hands of people “without culture or human experience.”
Mastrogiacomo has written a book about his ordeal, called " Days of Fear," which has been called "Graphic and harrowing" and “…not only a work of reportage, (but) a journey to the very limits of human experience." He’ll be speaking about it at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura at 1023 Hilgard Avenue Westwood, Los Angeles, on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 6:30pm.
From the IIC’s release: “To escape detection, Mastrogiacomo's captors dragged him from village to village, through opium plantations, along dusty roads and over rugged mountains, from one end of Afghanistan to the other.”
Photo by Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images