(MENAFN- Gulf Times)
A protester holds a sign depicting Egyptian-British Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour in front of the criminal court in Berlin. AFP
AFP/Doha
Germany released on Monday Al-Jazeera correspondent Ahmed Mansour who was arrested on the weekend at the request of his native Egypt the Doha-based channel said.
"We welcome this decision by the German prosecutor" said Al-Jazeera spokesman Hareth Adlouni adding that the prosecutor had dropped all charges against Mansour.
The 52-year-old journalist was arrested Saturday at a Berlin airport with a spokesman for the German prosecution service saying he was detained "on the basis of a national Egyptian arrest warrant".
Al-Jazeera said an Egyptian court sentenced Mansour in absentia in 2014 to 15 years in prison for "torturing a lawyer in 2011 on Tahrir Square" the Cairo epicentre of protests that brought down President Hosni Mubarak.
"Mansour has rejected these absurd accusations" the network said.
Mansour who hosts a popular news interview programme recently interviewed Abu Mohamed al-Jolani the chief of Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate Al-Nusra Front.
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