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 | | Ol' Fiskie standing in for Ms Gall, lol. |
WASHINGTON: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a statement on Saturday that New York Times correspondent Carlotta Gall had been beaten up in Quetta where she had gone on a reporting assignment. Her photographer was detained before being released. CPJ called for a full investigation. While Ms Gall is said to have been roughed up in her hotel room, her photographer Akhtar Soomro was kept in detention. The alleged incident took place on December 19. Ms Gall, who recently filed a report about incursions of Taliban and other extremist elements from Pakistan into Afghanistan, told the CPJ that men claiming to be from the special branch of police detained Soomro, a Pakistani national, in his hotel and seized his computer and camera. Four men later broke into the journalistÂ’s room in another hotel, hit her and took away some of her belongings. Ms Gall said she had bruises on her arms, temple and cheekbone, a swelling on her left eye and a sprained knee.
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