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CBC reporter released in Afghanistan
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by Amy Judd | November 8, 2008 at 03:34 pm
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A Canadian CBC journalist was freed in Afghanistan today, four weeks after she was kidnapped in Kabul.
Journalist Mellissa Fung was seized on October 12 as she reported from a refugee camp on the outskirts of the capital, but she was freed today after tribal elders negotiated her release from her captors.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said no ransom had been paid by his government, CBC or anyone else.
But he revealed that hundreds of Canadian and Afghan officials had been involved over the past month in efforts to free her, and that he had called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to thank him.
"She sounded in remarkably good spirits under the circumstances. She said that she feels OK," Mr Harper told a news conference.
John Cruickshank, the publisher of CBC News, called Ms Fung's release "great news" and also paid tribute to the Afghan government.
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at 18:39 on November 8th, 2008
Glad to see she is free.
at 07:23 on November 9th, 2008
There's an incredibly uninformative interview going on on CBC at the moment, in which neither CBC or Afghan officials will answer any questions about the case, except that the news team's fixer is still being held by Afghan police, while the CBC asserts that he's not involved in the kidnapping.