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Kidnapped Journalist Freed After 3 Months
A JOURNALIST kidnapped by a group associated with the Taleban was due back in the UK last night following his release on Saturday.
Sean Langan, a freelance reporter from London, who was working for the Channel 4 programme Dispatches, was held captive for three months after he was snatched on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Last night, his family said in a statement: “We are absolutely thrilled that Sean is back in the UK and free. We can’t thank Channel 4 enough for helping us.
“We have negotiated with his kidnappers for the last couple of weeks,” they said. “Before that, we were unaware of his kidnapping.
“He is being released into the UK tonight. He is as well as can be expected given his ordeal.
“We have no other comment to make, apart from we are delighted.”
A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed that Mr Langan was “safe and well” after his release on Saturday night.
A spokesman for Channel 4 said: “On behalf of Sean Langan’s family, Channel 4 can confirm that Sean and his Afghan fixer have been released after being held captive somewhere in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
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One Response to “Kidnapped Journalist Freed After 3 Months”
Posted on 24 Jun 2008 at 5:08 pm by Cord;ey Coit
He’s lucky they were bandits not true believers.
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