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An Al-Jazeera journalist detained in Berlin has been freed.

Sofia Diogo MateusJune 21, 2015

A British-Egyptian Al-Jazeera journalist detained in Berlin has been freed. International attention has now turned to German authorities' reasons for detaining him in the first place.

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