Fri Sep 8, 2006 6:47pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan will free U.S. reporter Paul Salopek, who was arrested early last month and charged with espionage, and allow him to return to the United States, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said on Friday.
Richardson said he secured the release of Salopek, a Chicago Tribune correspondent who lives in New Mexico, and two colleagues from Chad during talks in Khartoum with President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
"I am pleased to report that our negotiations were successful and Paul Salopek will return home to New Mexico with me," Richardson said in a statement released by his New Mexico office.
He said Sudanese authorities agreed to release the men on humanitarian grounds. Salopek, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who was in Sudan on assignment for National Geographic magazine, was arrested after he crossed from Chad into Sudan's war-torn Darfur region without a visa.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan will free U.S. reporter Paul Salopek, who was arrested early last month and charged with espionage, and allow him to return to the United States, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said on Friday.
Richardson said he secured the release of Salopek, a Chicago Tribune correspondent who lives in New Mexico, and two colleagues from Chad during talks in Khartoum with President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
"I am pleased to report that our negotiations were successful and Paul Salopek will return home to New Mexico with me," Richardson said in a statement released by his New Mexico office.
He said Sudanese authorities agreed to release the men on humanitarian grounds. Salopek, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who was in Sudan on assignment for National Geographic magazine, was arrested after he crossed from Chad into Sudan's war-torn Darfur region without a visa.
More at link...
