DOHA: An Austrian far-right extremist who visited Afghanistan reportedly to prove it was a safe country was released on Sunday after nine months in detention there.

Herbert Fritz, 84, who, the Austrian media say, has close links to the far-right extremist scene, arrived in the Qatari capital Doha after being freed by Taliban authorities.

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