Iranian police in Guyana to probe scholar's abduction
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Iranian police
were in Guyana on Monday, probing the abduction of an Iranian scholar earlier
this month, amid concerns among Shiites here that Guyanese police had been
slow to solve the case. Iranian Ambassador to
Guyana, Ahmad Sobhani confirmed to AFP that four Iranian police officers had
arrived in Guyana late Sunday to help investigate the disappearance of
Mohammad Hassan Ebrahimi on April 2. The team
held meetings with Police Commissioner Winston Felix and Home Affairs Minister
Ronald Gajraj. Gajraj said the Iranian police
would work alongside Guyana's US-trained anti-kidnapping squad and other
police. Ebrahimi was snatched from his car
under gunfire and shoved into the gunmen's car. His eight-months pregnant
wife, Shahnaz Ansari, and officials of the International Islamic College for
Advanced Studies (IICAS) have not heard from the scholar or his kidnappers.
Ebrahimi was kidnapped while leaving the college, where he had gone to
investigate a telephone report from another college official that water had
been leaking on computers. However, investigators have found no evidence of
such a leak. Interim head of the IICAS, Sheik
Salim Ibn Abdul Kadir, has said that the local Shiite Islamic community was
concerned about the apparent tardiness by Guyanese police to solve the crime.
Guyana police said that there was little information to work with and that
several leads had been traced, including one that led to the search of a
Sunni-run Islamic school, which drew condemnation from a wide cross-section of
Guyana's Muslims. At least nine percent of
Guyana's 700,000 persons are Muslims.
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