Indian BSF detains photographer Shahidul Alam: Drik
Tue, Jun 16th, 2009 8:51 pm BdST
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Dhaka, June 16 (bdnews24.com)—Indian Border Security Force have detained photographer Shahidul Alam, founder of Drik Gallery and chief editor of photo agency DrikNEWS, a colleague said on Tuesday.
Drik editor Azizur Rahim told bdnews24.com Alam up at the Rowmari-Sahapara border in Kurigram at around 5pm and were holding him on the Indian side.
"The BSF guards on duty had first asked him to come over to the Indian side and then detained him," said a Drik statement.
Alam was working on a National Geographic project based on the Brahmaputra, it said.
His two colleagues, who were accompanying him, are on the Bangladeshi side of the border and have so far failed to establish any contact with him.
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