Colombia - FARC urged to keep promise and release captive French reporter

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders received direct confirmation last night that Roméo Langlois, a French freelance journalist who went missing in the southern department of Caquetá on 28 April, is being held by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a leftist guerrilla group. “The army has verified the claim that a female member of the FARC's 15th Division made in phone calls to several media,” Reporters Without Borders was told by a representative of the French TV news station (...)

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