ZAGREB, March 24 (Hina) - Croatian reporter Robert Valdec, who in recent weeks reported from Baghdad for the Croatian TV station CCN, was banished from the country by the Iraqi authorities after he started reporting for the
CNN.
ZAGREB, March 24 (Hina) - Croatian reporter Robert Valdec, who in
recent weeks reported from Baghdad for the Croatian TV station CCN,
was banished from the country by the Iraqi authorities after he
started reporting for the CNN. #L#
Around 9 am on Monday Valdec phoned CCN information programme
editor Drazen Klaric from Amman in Jordan to tell him that he was all
right.
Valdec was taken away from his hotel room around 11 pm on Saturday.
Holding him at gunpoint, the Iraqi police took him to the border
with Jordan, after which all contact with him was lost. Valdec was
one of the last foreign reporters to remain in Baghdad. The CNN
contacted him after its crew was banished from Iraq.
Several Croatian reporters are still in and around Iraq.
(hina) rml sb