(MISA/IFEX) – Police in Zanzibar on 21 June 1998, confiscated the film of photo-journalist Amour Nassor, who works for the state-owned weekly “Nuru”. Nassor was on assignment at the time to cover voting in a parliamentary by-election in Mikunguni. He was taking photos of voters at the Kijangwani polling station when he was surrounded by […]
(MISA/IFEX) – Police in Zanzibar on 21 June 1998, confiscated the film of
photo-journalist Amour Nassor, who works for the state-owned weekly “Nuru”.
Nassor was on assignment at the time to cover voting in a parliamentary
by-election in Mikunguni. He was taking photos of voters at the Kijangwani
polling station when he was surrounded by about five police officers who
refused to see his press card. The police proceeded to remove the film from
his camera. They took the film to the nearby Kingombo police station and
have as yet not returned it to the journalist. The police, however,
apparently later allowed Nassor to take pictures of voters using a different
film.
Despite this, “Nuru” editor Ahmada Haji Ali told MISA-Tanzania that, as a
result of the police action against Nassor, he failed to get some
photographs that could have been very important in the latest edition of the
paper.
