RSF voices concern

Published July 7, 2003

PARIS, July 6: Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) is calling on Iranian authorities to provide information about the

fate of journalist Peyman Pakmehr, who was attacked and abducted in the northern town of Kaliber at around midnight on July 2, just two hours after he gave an interview to Radio Free Europe.

According to RSF’s Iran specialist Virginie Locussol, witnesses told RSF that they saw four armed men in civilian dress beat up the journalist outside the Babak Hotel in an attempt to force him into a car. “After he lost consciousness,” she says, “he was taken away, according to the eyewitnesses, in an ambulance.”

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