Langan works in dangerous and volatile situations; including environments noted for war, conflict and civil unrest.
[1][2][3] Bafta nominee Sean Langan, who was working for Channel 4's "Dispatches" television series when he was abducted in March by the Taliban in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, was "safe and well" after release on 21 June 2008 in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Langan was held hostage by the Taliban for 12 weeks after trying to make contact with Al-Qaeda's second in command, as he searched for associates of Osama bin Laden.
Imprisoned in a small, darkened basement cell, which had a hole in the ground for a toilet, they were brought 2 meals a day of bread and "stringy" meat.
"[6] In March 2024 Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired a documentary titled "Ukraine's War: The Other Side," by Sean Langan which has been criticised by Ukrainian ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko as the "journalistic equivalent of a bowl of vomit" and seemed to repeat Russian justification for the War in Ukraine and structured in a way that seems to favor the Russian side.