Having Captured Killing On Tape, Cameraman Fears For His Life

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Having captured killing on tape, cameraman fears for his life – Committee to Protect Journalists

Abdul Salam Somroo is in danger. He is the Awaz TV cameraman who took the June 9 video footage of the pointblank murder of a young man, Sarfaraz Shah, in southern Karachi. That’s the same part of the city where militants beheaded American Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Only when Somroo got…

via Committee to Protect Journalists: https://cpj.org/2011/06/having-captured-killing-on-tape-cameraman-fears-fo/

Abdul Salam Soomro is in very real danger. He finds himself the key witness in the murder case being brought against the five rangers accused of shooting Shah. If the case makes it to trial, the rangers could face execution or life imprisonment.