By Bobby Adams Three Israelis shooting a documentary in a separatist region in southeast Nigeria were arrested last week, the Foreign Mi...
By Bobby Adams
Three Israelis shooting a documentary in a separatist region
in southeast Nigeria were arrested last week, the Foreign Ministry has
confirmed.
According to Times Of Israel, Nigerian authorities arrested
and interrogated the trio on suspicion that they had come into contact with
‘Biafran separatists.’
According to the Foreign Ministry, the Israeli Embassy in
Abuja is following the case closely and is in contact with Nigerian
authorities.
One of the Israelis arrested is Rudy Rochman, a Zionist
activist with almost 95,000 followers on Instagram. Making the flight with him
were filmmaker Noam Leibman and French-Israeli journalist E. David Benaym.
The Israelis were in Nigeria to film “We Were Never Lost,” a
documentary exploring Jewish communities in African countries such as Kenya,
Madagascar, Uganda, and Nigeria.
They took off from Ben Gurion Airport on July 5 and landed
in Nigeria the next day.
According to residents, the crew was detained at a synagogue
during Friday night services in the Igbo village of Ogidi by Nigeria’s secret
police, the Department of State Services (DSS) and taken to Abuja.
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