Another reporter picked up
Reporter of daily Star held: Dawn Group’s statement
KARACHI, July 24: Mr Rashid Channa, senior Pakistani journalist for the Star, the Karachi evening daily newspaper published by the Dawn Group of Newspapers, was picked up on Sunday by police officials on the orders of a civil servant responsible for running the chief minister’s office in Karachi.
A spokesman for the Dawn Group of Newspaper which publishes the daily Star has issued the following statement on the matter and appealed to national and international organizations to rally in defence of Mr Channa and the newspaper group in defence of press freedoms:
Today at approximately 13.30 hours Mr Rashid Channa, reporter of our evening newspaper the daily Star, was picked up from his residence in Karachi by unknown and uniformed police officials escorted by a police vehicle.
KARACHI, July 24: Mr Rashid Channa, senior Pakistani journalist for the Star, the Karachi evening daily newspaper published by the Dawn Group of Newspapers, was picked up on Sunday by police officials on the orders of a civil servant responsible for running the chief minister’s office in Karachi.
A spokesman for the Dawn Group of Newspaper which publishes the daily Star has issued the following statement on the matter and appealed to national and international organizations to rally in defence of Mr Channa and the newspaper group in defence of press freedoms:
Today at approximately 13.30 hours Mr Rashid Channa, reporter of our evening newspaper the daily Star, was picked up from his residence in Karachi by unknown and uniformed police officials escorted by a police vehicle.
posted by India News Watch at 4:04 AM
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