TEHRAN: Iranian photojournalist Mohammad-Hossein Velayati, who was detained last week in Afghanistan, has been released, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency, which Velayati works for, reported Saturday.
The journalist was handed over to the Iranian embassy in Kabul on Friday night, the report said, adding that the release was confirmed by Bilal Karimi, a spokesman of the Taliban administration, but the reporter has yet to be transferred to Iran.
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