An American journalist who was held hostage in Lebanon for seven years has died

22.04.2024.

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American journalist Terry Anderson, who was held hostage for nearly seven years in Lebanon during the country’s civil war, has died at the age of 76.

Anderson died yesterday in New York at his home. He was the AP’s chief Middle East correspondent when he was kidnapped by Islamic militants during the Lebanese hostage crisis in 1985, the BBC reports.

“He never liked to be called a hero, but everyone continued to call him that. Although my father’s life was marked by extreme suffering during his captivity, he found peace in his final years,” said his daughter Sulom Anderson. She added that Terry Anderson would prefer to be remembered for his humanitarian work with the Vietnam Children’s Fund, the Committee to Protect Journalists and helping homeless war veterans.

Anderson was kidnapped on March 16, 1985, and spent six years and nine months in an underground prison. He was bound and blindfolded most of the time, and he was with more than 100 other people who were abducted. He was released in 1991, when the civil war in Lebanon ended, after which he was a professor of journalism at several American universities until 2015.

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