maandag, juni 16, 2003
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday issued a decree pardoning a Japanese photographer who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for the explosion of an Iraqi war memento that killed an airport security guard. A spokesman for Gomi's employer, Mainichi Shimbun, said the newspaper was now hoping for Hiroki's quick release and return to Tokyo. "The king signed a document pardoning Hiroki Gomi and we are now waiting for a formal notification from the royal court and word on his release," Takuya Kishimoto, the Mainichi London bureau chief currently in Amman, said.
Jordan's state security court sentenced Gomi to 18 months in jail on June 1 after the May 1 explosion killed an airport security guard as the photographer was returning from covering the war in Iraq. Security guard Ali Sarhan was killed while he examined a cluster bomblet that was found in Gomi's luggage through a metal detector, as the photographer prepared to board a flight to Cairo on his way to Tokyo. Five other people were injured in the explosion.
Bron: Middle East Online.
Jordan's state security court sentenced Gomi to 18 months in jail on June 1 after the May 1 explosion killed an airport security guard as the photographer was returning from covering the war in Iraq. Security guard Ali Sarhan was killed while he examined a cluster bomblet that was found in Gomi's luggage through a metal detector, as the photographer prepared to board a flight to Cairo on his way to Tokyo. Five other people were injured in the explosion.
Bron: Middle East Online.
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