Missing Pakistani Journalist Imran Riaz Khan Returns Home After Four Months
The former TV anchor with more than three million followers on YouTube was arrested in May while on his way to Oman.
A prominent Pakistani journalist missing for more than four months has returned home in Sialkot city, his family and police said.
Imran Riaz Khan, a former TV news presenter with more than three million followers on YouTube, was arrested at Sialkot airport in May while he was on his way to Oman.
In the video message posted on X, formerly Twitter, shortly after his arrest on May 11, the 47-year-old journalist said the “space to talk is shrinking in the country and I am being forced into silence”.
“I am leaving the country so I can continue speaking,” said the journalist, who is a vocal supporter of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The two are not related.
“He [Imran Riaz Khan] reached home safely this [Monday] morning,” Khan’s younger brother Usman Riaz Khan told Al Jazeera.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Sialkot police said Khan “has been safely recovered” and is now with his family. The police, however, did not say from where the journalist was recovered.
Khan’s lawyer Mian Ashfaq Ali told Al Jazeera the journalist’s return took a long time due to “countless difficulties and a weak judiciary”.
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