Marie Jeanne Ion

Marie Jeanne Ion (born 1972) is a Romanian journalist for Prima TV, who was kidnapped in Iraq on March 28, 2005, along with Sorin Mişcoci, Eduard Ohanesian and Mohammad Munaf. The hostage-takers were the Mouadh Ibn Jabal Brigade, who demanded the withdrawal of the 860 Romanian troops in Iraq in return for their release. They were freed on May 22, except for Mohammad Munaf, who was arrested and sentenced to death by an Iraqi court. Syrian-born Romanian financier Omar Hayssam was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison after a Romanian court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnapping.