22-07-2022, 05:35 PM
Probably best to put it here. BBC News journalists were attacked in Sri Lanka, and were demanded to delete the footage.
The moment as reported by BBC News Tamil:
https://youtu.be/vnLzYKaQ5tI
Anbarasan Ethirajan Wrote:When we were returning from the area, a man in civilian clothes, surrounded by troops, shouted at my colleague and said he wanted to delete the videos from his phone. Within seconds, the man punched my colleague and snatched his phone.(From https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62260678)
Although I explained to them we were journalists and simply doing our job, they wouldn't listen. My colleague was attacked further and we raised strong objections. The microphone of another BBC colleague was taken and thrown away.
The phone was returned after the videos were deleted from the device. Another army officer intervened and let us go.
My colleague was shaken, but was able to walk back to the hotel, a few hundred metres away.
The moment as reported by BBC News Tamil:
https://youtu.be/vnLzYKaQ5tI
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