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The journalist was arrested and detained on Friday while he was conducting protests in the north of the country for the TV channel 2.
According to Aftenposten, Zaman, along with 38 other people, was reportedly the victim of the violence. Attacks for calling four police officers. have torn the uniform of a police officer and for the disturbance of the order.
The police report that the newspaper received said that he was shot at the police. This is the reason they are accused of murder. According to the newspaper, however, no information is given about who should have shot or executed the other acts
For how long Zaman has been imprisoned is not clear.
Was beaten with clubs
Zaman informed his employer that he The arrest was imprisoned in a cell of 21 other people
He was imprisoned despite the announcement that he was at work as a journalist.
"I was testifying to violent behavior on the part of the police who used clubs to arrest activists. Was attacked and hit with clubs, despite saying that I was in the press, "says Zaman on TV 2.
Receives consular assistance
– We have received reports Kadafi and the witnesses behaved brutally, fired abruptly into the air and beat protesters with sticks, and that is precisely what Zaman wanted to convey and bring home, and then he is himself arrested in this situation, says press publisher Karianne Solbrække in TV 2 at NTB Saturday night.
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The channel is in permanent contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD), announcing that they know that a Norwegian journalist is imprisoned in Pakistan.
– The Embassy in Islamabad is in contact with him and provides consular assistance. We also have a close dialogue with his employer in Norway. We are working fully with the case, says Kristin Enstad at NTB Press
– Jobs to get him released
The Embassy of Pakistan in Oslo also states that they are working to free Zaman.
– We Pakistan's ambassador to Norway, Riffat Masood, is working on an overview of the situation.
She travels to Islamabad on Saturday night and says she has put her ambassador and deputy commander, Zaib Abbasi, on the issue. "We are currently working to release Zaman as soon as possible," Abassi told VG
. The embassy attempts to contact, among others, the first secretary of Punjab, a senior official of the province, as well as various ministries and ministers.
Zaman was on vacation with her family, but she also had to cover protests in the country.
– TV 2 reacts firmly that our journalist is arrested while he is trying to do his job as a journalist. It's very serious. We have not had the opportunity to talk to him directly, and so we know too little about the situation to say so much more now, Solbrække says to his own channel.
His family was in contact with him after the arrest. They say that he is good at it depending on the circumstances, according to TV 2.
The arrest occurred shortly after Zaman himself reported that the police went to the protests of mass by the politicians who support former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Sharif, who belongs to the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) party, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia for corruption on 6 July. He was arrested when he returned to Pakistan from London on Friday.
25. According to Sharif's party, at least 4,000 party members were arrested Friday by the Pakistani police
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