(Freedom House/IFEX) – According to Freedom House, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service confirmed in a 27 May 1998 report that a three-man television film crew is being detained by the authorities in Yemen. The crew, who include the BBC’s regional correspondent Rageh Omaar, was held overnight in Sanaa (the capital city). The journalists […]
(Freedom House/IFEX) – According to Freedom House, the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) World Service confirmed in a 27 May 1998 report that a
three-man
television film crew is being detained by the authorities in Yemen. The
crew, who include the BBC’s regional correspondent Rageh Omaar, was held
overnight in Sanaa (the capital city).
The journalists had just returned from filming in a remote region where a
British family was recently kidnapped and held by local tribesmen for three
weeks. A British embassy spokesman in Sanaa said the journalists do not
appear to have been given permission
by the government to visit the area. The spokesman said the matter should be
resolved soon.
