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| UK trial for pair charged with journalists' Syria kidnap |
| 2012-12-07 |
| A man charged with the kidnapping of two Western journalists by Islamic extremists in Syria will go on trial with another suspect in June. Jubayer Chowdhury appeared by videolink at the Old Bailey and was remanded in custody for a preliminary hearing in April. He will be tried with a British trainee doctor, Shajul Islam, on a charge of imprisoning a British photographer and a Dutch journalist against their will in July while they were covering the Syrian conflict. The trial will start on June 5 and is expected to last six weeks. Chowdhury was arrested by counter-terrorism police at Heathrow Airport last month after arriving on a flight from Bahrain. Islam was detained at Heathrow airport in October after arriving on a flight from Egypt. |
| Posted by:ryuge |