Non-profits are urging Canada to facilitate refuge for journalists in danger, but can the industry help them get back to work?

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“It took him a long time to get to Canada and he’s one of the lucky ones. Most journalists in distress never make it here” “The good thing is [the] CJFE is a strong organization with strong people committed to help journalists around the world,” says Morteza Abdolalian, who has been a board member at the CJFE since 2002, and currently sits on the International Issues Committee. A journalist and human rights advocate, he was forced to flee Iran due to the nature of his work. Abdolalian also tracks human rights violations at his site, Iran Watch Canada. For example, on an ongoing basis he was in contact with about a dozen journalists who had recently escaped repression in Iran and were living as refugees in Turkey. They hope the CJFE can help them come to Canada. “I don’t want to forget these journalists…they email me constantly,” says Abdolalian. “We have a moral obligation to help these journalists, to support this initiative, to ask the government of Canada to respond to CJFE, to take this action seriously.”