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Kidnapped Canadian journalist freed in Afghanistan
A female Canadian TV journalist abducted and held for nearly four weeks in Afghanistan has been freed after Afghan tribal leaders persuaded her kidnappers to release her, officials said.
- AP
- Published: 10:11 November 9, 2008
Kabul: A female Canadian TV journalist abducted and held for nearly four weeks in Afghanistan has been freed after Afghan tribal leaders persuaded her kidnappers to release her, officials said.
Mellissa Fung, a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on her second visit to Afghanistan, was taken hostage on October 12 after reporting in a refugee camp in Kabul.
Western news organisations in Afghanistan had been aware of Fung's abduction, but the CBC requested that her case not be publicised for safety considerations while officials tried to negotiate her release.
Fung was freed on Saturday after tribal elders and provincial council members negotiated her release, said Adam Khan Serat, spokesman for the provincial governor in Wardak. Serat said there was no ransom involved.
It was not immediately clear who kidnapped her, but it seemed likely the Taliban was holding her because they control the region where she was released.
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