(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a Media Watch press release: A photojournalist was kidnapped by terrorists and finally released two hours later, after the journalist agreed to their conditions. The incident took place in the Eastern divisional town of Sylhet on Monday, May 7, 2001. Photojournalist Iqbal Mansoor, who works for the local daily […]
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a Media Watch press release:
A photojournalist was kidnapped by terrorists and finally released two hours later, after the journalist agreed to their conditions. The incident took place in the Eastern divisional town of Sylhet on Monday, May 7, 2001.
Photojournalist Iqbal Mansoor, who works for the local daily SHYAMOL SYLHET, was kidnapped while on professional duty in the Soth Surma part of the city. The editor of SHYAMOL SYLHET, Mr. Chowdhury Mumtaj Ahmed, explained that he had assigned Mansoor to take some snapshots in the area. When Mansoor tried to take a snapshot of an illegal shop, armed terrorists kidnapped him and detained him in a nearby building. They snatched his camera, mobile phone, Taka1500 (US$50) and a tape recorder. The terrorists ordered him at gunpoint not to publish the picture in the newspaper and not to inform police of their names. They also ordered him not to file a case with the police, threatening that he would otherwise be killed. Two hours later, after Mansoor had agreed to all their conditons, they released him.
In another case, the terrorist ward commissioner of the Chittagong city corporation, who was wanted in the context of a case filed against him for an attack on the offices of the daily Purbokone and the assault on two journalists, surrendered yesterday (May 7, 2001) in the chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Chittagong. The magistrate sent him to jail.
