British Foreign Office Says Taliban to Release Reporter RidleyBritain's Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the British reporter who was arrested by Afghanistan's Taliban regime would be releases soon.Yvonne Ridley, 43, who was working for the British newspaper Sunday Express was arrested late last month when she was trying to enter Afghanistan without a passport. She was picked up along with her two Afghan guides close to the eastern city of Jalalabad on September 28 while dressed in an all- enveloping Afghan clothing that reaches the toes and has only a mesh for the eyes. "Our high commissioner in Islamabad has spoken to the Taliban representative in Islamabad this afternoon, who said that Kabul has confirmed that she will be released," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said. But she said the foreign office had not "got any timing yet," on when the journalist would be released. Her newspaper the Sunday Express said it hoped that she would be released within the next 24 hours. "We understand that she is free to go and the exact details of her release are still being worked out. We do understand that she will be free within the next day or two, she'll be out of Afghanistan," a Sunday Express spokesman said. |
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