STOCKHOLM - A Swedish freelance journalist who went missing close to areas controlled by Islamic State militants told Swedish media he had been freed after a week being held by Syrian government forces.
Joakim Medin, 30, said he had been captured at a roadblock in al-Qamishli, a Syrian town on the Turkish border. He said he was held in isolation but had not been treated violently.
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Expressen by telephone from al-Qamishli. "I feel OK. I'm worn out both in mind and body but I'm OK."
Swedish Foreign Ministry spokewoman Ulla Jacobson declined to give further information, but said: "The Swedish citizen is free and feeling well."
