KANDAHAR: An Al Jazeera television cameraman was released from a Nato-run prison on Friday, the journalist said, after spending two days in detention in southern Afghanistan.
Another Al Jazeera cameraman and a local TV reporter detained by the US-led Nato force this week are yet to be released.
“I'm freed,” Mohammad Nader told AFP as he left Kandahar Airfield, the biggest Nato base in southern Afghanistan. “They said I can go, 'you're free',” Nader said.
The journalist was picked up from his home in Kandahar city early Wednesday and Nato’s International Security Assistance Force said it had “captured a suspected Taliban media and propaganda facilitator, who participated in filming election attacks”.
After the detention of its staff, the Doha-based television network accused Nato of trying to suppress its coverage of the war in Afghanistan.
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