Iraqi journalist freed after Baghdad kidnap


(MENAFN) A prominent Iraqi female journalist who was abducted last week has been freed.

In detail, gunmen claiming to be security personnel took Afrah Shawqi al-Qaisi from her home in Baghdad.

After being freed late on Tuesday, she told NRT television: 'The treated me well. They just interrogated me and thank God they found me not guilty.'

Hours earlier, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had said investigators believed the kidnapping was both politically and criminally motivated.


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