Channel 24 producer detained for two hours
JournalismPakistan.com | Published: 15 June 2017
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Police detained Channel 24 associate producer Syed Talha for two hours while he was sending footage from the Judicial Academy. The incident occurred after an assistant commissioner ordered him to move his news van.Summary
ISLAMABAD – Police arrested an associate producer with Channel 24 Thursday as he attempted to send footage of events around the Judicial Academy where Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared before an investigation team. Reports say an assistant commissioner approached producer Syed Talha. He told him to move his news gathering van away within five minutes. Talha was in the middle of sending his footage across. He requested the officer he would do so as soon as he was done. In the meanwhile, two policemen in plainclothes arrived. They put him in a prison van. After keeping him in detention for two hours he was freed.
Key Points
- Channel 24 producer Syed Talha was arrested by police.
- He was detained while sending footage regarding PM Nawaz Sharif's appearance.
- An assistant commissioner requested him to move his van within five minutes.
- Two plainclothes policemen took him to a prison van.
- He was released after two hours of detention.
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