Posted on 05/12/2004 12:01:30 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Reuters) -- An Iranian scholar who was abducted in Guyana last month in a case that baffled local police has been found dead with gunshot wounds to the head, police said on Wednesday.
The body of Mohammad Hassan Ebrahimi, director of Guyana's International Islamic College for Advanced Studies, was discovered by local people late on Tuesday 45 miles (70 km) south of the capital, Georgetown.
Ebrahimi, a well-known member of Guyana's Muslim community, was seized by two gunmen on April 2 in Georgetown as he left the college compound.
Police spokesman John Sauers said the partly decomposed body of the slain academic, with the mouth taped and hands and feet bound was found in a shallow grave.
"There were two gunshot wounds to the head," he said.
A colleague of Ebrahimi, Abdul Kadir, identified the corpse which was found in bushes along a track near the Linden-Soesdyke highway south of Georgetown. The body was handed over to the family after a post-mortem examination.
Guyana police were baffled by the abduction because although kidnappings are frequent in the South American country, Ebrahimi's captors did not contact his family and made no ransom demand.
Four Iranian police detectives and Iran's ambassador to Guyana, Ahmad Sobhani, who is based in Venezuela, went to Georgetown last week to assist local authorities.
Muslims form a significant part of Guyana's multiracial population, although the Christian and Hindu communities are larger.
Africans seeking asylum in Guyana
AP
Sunday, November 07, 2004
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Police said yesterday they would contact family members of four Africans who plan to ask for asylum in the South American country of Guyana to verify their story that their boat broke down on the way to the Caribbean from the Cape Verde islands off West Africa.
Police planned to hire a French-speaking interpreter to make contact with relatives, said Deputy Police Commissioner Henry Greene.
Fishermen rescued the four October 24 while their 12-foot (four-metre) sail-and-motor boat was adrift off Guyana's coast.
The young men said they had left Cape Verde and hoped to reach the French island of Martinique, a month-long, more than 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometre) voyage across the Atlantic.
Greene said police had investigated the vessel and determined that it was in disrepair. Police were also checking to see whether it had been stolen, Greene said.
Many questions remained about the voyage described by the men and their reasons for requesting asylum.
They men have been in jail nearly a week since being arrested on charges of entering Guyana illegally, their lawyer Mortimer Codette said.
The fishermen had brought them to shore and introduced the men to fellow Muslims who allowed them to stay in their homes. The four were detained when they went to immigration police to request permission to stay.
Codette said the four included Abdul Karim, 23, from Senegal; Mamoud Ba, 23, from Guinea-Bissau; Gabriel Camaro, 22, from Gambia; and Joao Manuel Lopez, 23, from Cape Verde. He said all except Lopez said they were orphans.
The men appeared healthy, were well-dressed, and had euros when they were rescued at sea, Codette said. Police seized the men's boat, which was brought to shore.
In court Thursday, the four pleaded innocent to charges of entering the country illegally.
They are to be tried next Thursday. If they are found guilty, the men could be fined and deported.
Codette said he plans to file an asylum claim next week. He said the men "said they were so well treated that they now want to stay here."
Hmmmm....I guess we'll have to see what the rest of the story is here.
Strange, though...Thanks for the heads up.
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Thanks for the additional and informative article. It certainly sounds as if he was ambushed, and that "official of the institution" would have been involved.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Codette said the four included Abdul Karim, 23, from Senegal; Mamoud Ba, 23, from Guinea-Bissau; Gabriel Camaro, 22, from Gambia; and Joao Manuel Lopez, 23, from Cape Verde. He said all except Lopez said they were orphans."
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why do people alway talk about things that they have no idea what they are talking about. the reason that the germany police drop the case was because they can't do anything to military soldiers. now if it was the friend that everyone cliam it was the germans would still be on the case because it was dealing with cilivians, but since they found out that the husband was in the house when she was killed and that he had raped her, how can it be someone else. this is not form reading from some newspaper or the net this is coming from the source. she was going to leave her husband because they had been married for 6 years and he had a now six month year old little girl with another woman. she had turn him in to the irs for tax fraud and a whole lot of different thing. he was suppose to leave on the 18 of nov. but they flag him from leaving. now everyone close to her knew this but we as her friends are tired of people trying to put the blame on her. and by the way if you love somebody as he is telling everybody he love her why his he keep her body here in germany, not even buried and not sending it to her family in guyana. yes the body is still in germany sitting on a morge. and she wasn't into that bondage stuff because of somethings that happen when she was younger and she told everybody that.
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