Danish Siddiqui: The parents of a slain Indian journalist have filed a lawsuit against the Taliban
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The parents of Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist, are pursuing legal action against the Taliban over their son’s killing.
Last year, while reporting in Afghanistan, a 38-year-old Reuters journalist was killed in an ambush by the Taliban.
His parents have filed charges against six Taliban leaders with the International Criminal Court (ICC). They claim the Taliban kidnapped him, tortured him, and executed him before mutilating his body.
Initial reports say Siddiqui was killed in crossfire during the operation on Kandahar’s Spin Boldak on July 16. According to Reuters, he was later found alive and taken to a mosque nearby for treatment.
According to Reuters, Siddiqui’s body was mangled in Taliban possession after his death, according to Indian and Afghan officials.
According to other reports at the time, Siddiqui’s body had been extensively disfigured by the time it was handed over to the Red Cross, despite the first images from the site showing him wounded but unharmed.
The Taliban, on the other hand, refuted this, claiming that the body had been mangled by the time they discovered it.
His parents, on the other hand, deny the Taliban’s claim.
Because Danish was an Indian journalist, the Taliban targeted and killed him. That is a serious international offence, “Avi Singh, their lawyer, stated.
Siddiqui, who is based in Mumbai, worked for Reuters for almost a decade, where his photographs earned him international acclaim and recognition, the most recent example being his photos of mass funerals performed during India’s catastrophic second wave. He won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2018. For his efforts in recording the brutality against Myanmar’s minority Rohingya group, he shared the award with colleague Adnan Abidi and five others.
He was in Afghanistan in July 2021, covering clashes in the Kandahar region as the US and its allies prepared to evacuate troops ahead of US President Joe Biden’s September 11 deadline.
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