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curlytopper
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Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:18 am
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[u]Afghan kidnappers demand convert[u/]
The kidnappers of an Italian journalist in Afghanistan have offered to free him in exchange for a Christian convert who fled the country, an aid agency says.
Photojournalist Gabriele Torsello was seized last Thursday while travelling in a bus in southern Afghanistan.
The kidnappers say they will release Mr Torsello - a Muslim convert - if Abdul Rahman returns from Italy where he was offered asylum earlier this year.
Mr Rahman had escaped a possible death sentence for becoming a Christian.
He had been charged with rejecting Islam and released this March after being deemed mentally unfit to stand trial on a charge of apostasy.
He then fled to Italy where he was offered asylum.
Mr Torsello's kidnappers placed their demand in a phone call to the head of security at a hospital run by an Italian aid agency in Afghanistan.
The kidnappers said they would release Mr Torsello if Mr Rahman returned home from Italy - the exchange should take place before the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, they added.
Taleban link?
It is still unclear whether the kidnappers belong to any group.
Mr Torsello, himself a Muslim convert who is based in London, was reportedly kidnapped while travelling in a bus between the restive provinces of Helmand and Kandahar.
He phoned a local hospital to say he had been kidnapped on Thursday and did not know where he was, an Italian newspaper reported.
Helmand and Kandahar have seen fierce fighting between Taleban militants and Nato-led foreign troops.
The Pajhwok news agency quoted Mr Torsello's travelling companion Gholam Mohammad as saying that he had been seized by five gunmen.
A Taleban representative who spoke to Reuters news agency distanced himself from the kidnapping, blaming it on criminals.
Gabriele Torsello says in his online CV that he is a "photojournalist specialising in war zones and hostile environments, mainly in Jammu and Kashmir and Islamic countries/areas".
Two German journalists were shot dead by unknown attackers in northern Afghanistan earlier this month.
Karen Fischer and Christian Struwe, two freelances working for Deutsche Welle, are believed to have been the first foreign reporters to be killed in the country since 2001.
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