Pakistani police say a Norwegian journalist who was arrested last week during clashes between police and supporters of ex-premier Nawaz Sharif has been freed on bail.
Gujrat Officer Mohammad Ashraf said today that Kadafi Zaman, who is of Pakistani origin, was arrested Friday after officers assumed he was one of the protesters from Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League Party. He said Zaman was freed yesterday.
Zaman's release came after the International Press Institute, a Vienna, Austria, based global network of editors, media executives and journalists for media freedom, asked Pakistan to drop charges against him.
Zaman, who works for the Norwegian broadcasting company TV 2, was arrested while covering a rally organized to welcome Sharif on his return from London to face a 10-year prison sentence for corruption.
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