The BBC asked journalists around the world to call for the release of its correspondent, Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped at gunpoint in the Gaza strip seven weeks ago. Gaza is one of the world's forlorn pockets of squalor and strife, its people impoverished, quarantined, and marginalized, and racked by factional violence. In addition to Johnston, thirteen journalists have been kidnapped there over the past two years. Until Johnston, none were held for more than two weeks. Alan Johnston has been missing almost two months. The silence means one less witness to a suffering people's ordeal. We add our voice to journalists around the world urging his release. —Bill Moyers