Islah militia kidnapped journalist Tariq Farid in Al-Shajn area, Habban, and confiscated his phone.
The journalist, Farid, was on a press mission to cover news of an oil pipeline leak in the region before the Islah militia overlooked him and arrested him.
The Journalist Tariq Farid wrote on his Facebook page that, while on his journalistic mission, a group belonged to the Mountainous Brigade came and took my phone and made me to sign a paper that says I should not talk or write about the news.
The Journalist says “This photo proves the environmental pollution that we have the right to claim compensation on the one hand and on the other hand it proves the failure of the oil company in front of the local authority and in front of the citizens in the process of repairing the tube but without interest.”
” as they took my own phone and threw me in the vehicle and called a second vehicle to take me to one of their private prisons threatening me with the most severe types of torture” he added .
