Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Afghanistan: Canadian broadcaster’s two local employees freed, by Anne Humphreys
Reporters Without Borders welcomes today’s release of two local employees of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - brothers Shokoor Feroz, a fixer, and Qaem Feroz, a driver - who had been held by the National Directorate of Security, an intelligence agency, since CBC reporter Melissa Fung’s abduction on 12 October.
"We thank President Hamid Karzai and the many other Afghans and Canadians who interceded on behalf of the unjustly detained Feroz brothers," Reporters Without Borders said. "The protests by CBC’s journalists and management illustrated in an exemplary manner that the defence of the local employees of foreign media should be a priority. The Afghan authorities should compensate the two brothers for their six weeks in detention."
The Reporters Without Borders release of 21 November : http://www.rsf.org/article.php3 ?id_article=29368
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Labels: Afghanistan, Anne Humphreys, Reporters without borders
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