NEW YORK: An Afghan man has been brought to the United States to face charges in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a journalist for The New York Times, an Afghan journalist and a driver in Afghanistan, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
The charges against Haji Najibullah, 42, were in a six-count indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court.
He briefly appeared at a hearing conducted electronically because of the coronavirus, where a U.S. magistrate judge ordered him detained after his court-appointed lawyer, Mark Gombiner, declined to seek bail. Gombiner did not respond to a message seeking comment.
A prosecutor said Najibullah was brought from Ukraine …read more
Source:: The Himalayan Times
