(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Barak, RSF has protested the attack on photographer Atta Wiesat by plain clothes Israeli intelligence agents. RSF asked the prime minister to “see to it that an inquiry is immediately launched on this matter.” According to RSF’s information, on 3 January 2000, Wiesat, a Palestinian photographer […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Barak, RSF has protested the attack on photographer Atta Wiesat by plain clothes Israeli intelligence agents. RSF asked the prime minister to “see to it that an inquiry is immediately launched on this matter.”
According to RSF’s information, on 3 January 2000, Wiesat, a Palestinian photographer who works for the Israeli press agency Zoom 77, was struck and his camera was broken by plain clothes Israeli intelligence agents. The photographer was taking pictures of the arrest of a Palestinian by the police close to the Damascus Gate. The journalist was taken to the Hadasa hospital after the attack, where he received emergency care. He was put under observation until 5 January.
