(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Interior Minister Nourredine Zerhouni, RSF protested the arbitrary arrest and detention of Zerog Walid, a freelance photographer with the French press agency IMA. RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard asked the minister to “provide an explanation for this arrest as soon as possible,” and also expressed his “serious concern” regarding the […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Interior Minister Nourredine Zerhouni, RSF protested the arbitrary arrest and detention of Zerog Walid, a freelance photographer with the French press agency IMA. RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard asked the minister to “provide an explanation for this arrest as soon as possible,” and also expressed his “serious concern” regarding the photographer’s fate.
According to information gathered by RSF, on Tuesday 28 March 2000, six armed individuals with the DRS (former military security branch) arrested Walid at his residence in Algiers’ El Biar neighbourhood. After confiscating his negatives and some video cassettes, the military security men allegedly took Walid to the Ben Aknoun barracks in a suburb of Algiers. The photographer was released in the afternoon of Sunday 2 April. He has not issued any public statement since his release.
