Majlis Foreign Policy Commission Condemns Detainment of Iranian Journalists in Iraq
TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) – A Majlis deputy said on Sunday that the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission condemned the arrest of the IRIB journalists and called for a probe into the matter by the officials.
The commission expressed regret over the arrest of the journalists and said this action runs counter to international laws, Hamidreza Hajbabayee said.
Hajbabayeee said the commission will follow the matter and asks all those responsible to take the matter very seriously.
Two Iranian photojournalists, Said Abutaleb and Soheil Karimi, have been detained by the U.S.-led forces in Iraq and there is no information about their whereabouts.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission also asked a UN official to find about the fate of Iranian journalists.
In a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN chief special envoy to Iraq Sergio Viera de Mello the Islamic Human Rights Commission called for clarification of the journalists’ fate on the basis of the UN 1483 Resolution.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=7/28/03&Cat=2&Num=023 I wasn't sure if you had seen this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3074785.stm The Kuwaiti Interior Minister says that Suleiman Abu Ghaith is in Iranian custody.
However, that same day:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/15/1058034988035.html The same Suleiman Abu Ghaith is free enough to make audiotaped threats to Dubai radio. This goes straight at the heart of the whole "al-Qaeda in Iran are in custody" mantra. The ayatollahs don't let any of the student activists their minions cart away speak to the foreign media, so why are they according it to a most-wanted terrorist?