Iran's Foreign Minister voices concern over kidnapping of cleric in Guyana
Sunday, April 11, 2004
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP): Iran's Foreign Minister
Kamal Kharazi voiced concern Saturday over the kidnapping of an Iranian cleric
in Guyana and called on officials there to work quickly to secure his release,
state media said. "We are worried about the
kidnapping of an Iranian religious scholar and researcher in Guyana," the
state IRNA news agency reported Kharazi as telling his Guyanese counterpart
Clement Rohee in a telephone conversation.
"We want the necessary action to be taken to release him as soon as possible
and for the abductors to be prosecuted," the minister added.
Muhammad Hassan Abrahemi, 35, was abducted outside the International Islamic
College of Advanced Studies on April 2 as gunmen fired shots at his car and
the building. On Wednesday, Sheikh Salim Ibn
Abdul Kadir, interim head of the college said Iran would send a fact-finding
mission to Guyana next week to investigate the kidnapping, but this could not
be confirmed with the Iranian foreign ministry.
The kidnappers have not contacted the college or Abrahemi's wife, Shahnaz
Ansari, demanding any ransom. Police are providing security for Ansari as well
as another college official who was shot during the abduction.
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