Since Tuesday 20^th  there are no news of Rahmatullah Hanefi, manager of 'Emergency' hospital in Lashkar-Gah. He was taken away at 5.30 a.m. from outside the Emergency houses in Lahkar Gah by the afghan secret services, who detain him since then – without allegations and without giving any information about him, nor the reasons for his detention, to his family or to the Italian Ngo Emergency. No one was allowed to meet Mr. Hanefi and no one could obtain any information about his conditions. Emergency expressed its “deepest concern” about the fate of Mr. Hanefi, and made “a plea to all media in order to back up the liberation of Rahmatullah Hanefi”. 

 

 

Since Monday 19^th there are no news of Adjmal Nashkbandi, the Afghan interpreter who was held by the Taliban with Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo. Adjmal has allegedly been freed together with Mastrogiacomo, according to the version of the journalist himself, who saw Adjmal going away as a free man. Some say instead that he is still in the hands of the Taleban: Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, in an interview with mullah Dadullah published on German magazine Der Spiegel, reports that mullah Dadullah is still holding Adjmal Nashkbandi, in order to exchange him with another prisoner, Mohammed Hanifi. Others say that he is, as Mr. Rahmatullah Hanefi, in the hands of the Afghan secret services, as was informally confirmed by the special forces of italian Carabinieri, operating in Kabul. The Ngo Emergency asked the Italian government to act in favour of Mr. Nashkbandi and Mr. Hanefi, both of them involved in the detention and subsequent release of Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo.