NPR: Police Arrest a Pakistani Editor, BPP Guest

Police Arrest a Pakistani Editor, BPP Guest

Filed under: Media, News

News from Pakistan: Kamal Siddiqi, an editor at The News of Karachi, has been arrested and is being held by police.

Siddiqi has been a guest on the BPP three times since Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan and the country plunged into political crisis.

The BBC reports today that "thousands" of protesters have been freed from jail by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, but at the same time at least 100 journalists have recently been detained, mostly in Karachi.

In a interview by cell phone from detention earlier today, Siddiqi reported that he and a number of other journalists "courted arrest." They presented themselves to police as a protest against the arrests of fellow journalists.

To be continued...

Ilya Marritz

12:20 PM ET | 11-20-2007 | permalink

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