Sean Langan -Journalist & Documentary Filmmaker.
Sean Langan
Sean Langan tells of Taliban kidnap ordeal
Deep inside al-Qa'eda's sanctuary high in the frozen mountains of Pakistan, a tribal council was scrutinising kidnapped British film maker Sean Langan and deciding whether he should live or die.
The mood of the meeting, attended by Langan's captors, was hostile: tribal elders suspected him of being a CIA spy and wanted to behead him as a warning to other infidels not to enter their territory.
Gaunt and wracked by malaria and dysentery, Langan rose unsteadily and argued for his life and for his terrified Afghan translator, shaking with fear beside him as he put the Englishman's words into Pushtun.
By the time he had finished speaking the gathering was murmuring with a grudging approval. He had won them over. They returned him to the three metres square underground cell where he spent ten weeks in captivity. More >>> Telegraph
29 June, 2008
Times Online - C4 pays £150,000 to free kidnapped film maker from terror camp
28 June, 2008
The Guardian - 'Freedom is the air we breathe'
27 June, 2008
Mail Online - Kidnapped by the Taliban, Sean Langan kept sane by dreaming of kissing his sons goodnight
24 June, 2008
The Independent - Taliban captors release kidnapped reporter Sean Langan
24 June, 2008
Times Online - Film-maker Sean Langan kidnapped in Afghanistan is set free
24 June, 2008
Sean Langan released by his kidnappers after being held hostage for 3 months in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sean was working on a documentary for Britain's Channel 4 when he was seized. The Foreign Office said Monday (23rd) that Langan was freed late Saturday (21st).
February 2008
- Sean Langan now has his own Blog at http://seanlanganblog.co.uk.
23 February 2008
- Meeting the Taliban was shortlisted for an RTS, (Royal Television Society) Award, and Fighting the Taliban has been nominated for a Bafta - "Will have to get my best shawal kamise and bow tie out of the wardrobe, and polish my shoes."
November 2007
- 'Fighting the Taliban' has won the prestigious 2007 Rory Peck Award. The documentary won the Features award for its eye-witness account of the battle to retake a strategically critical town in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Other news: after 8 months of lying low in London, Langan is now back on the road. "It's strange. But the second I got on the plane, and left London behind me - it felt like I was coming home. The only thing I miss in London are my family. The rest is bullshit."
Sean Langan is a British journalist and documentary film-maker. He works in dangerous and volatile situations; environments noted for war, conflict and civil unrest. In 2008 Sean Langan was kidnapped while filming in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. He was freed three months later.
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