Guerrillas Kidnap News Photographer
Leftist rebels seized a Reuters news agency photographer while he was on assignment in a mountain town and said they would put him on trial for publishing a photo of a rebel leader’s face. Henry Romero, 42, a Colombian freelancer who works regularly with the London-based agency, was detained by guerrillas of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, on Tuesday evening in Jamundi, a town near Cali. Reuters’ editor in chief, Mark Wood, urged Romero’s immediate release. Calling the abduction a violation of the news media’s neutral role in Colombia’s civil conflict, about a dozen Colombian and international photographers laid down their cameras and held placards with Romero’s picture at a demonstration in Bogota, the capital.
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