TIKRIT, Iraq - An Iraqi journalist for a mass-selling Arabic language newspaper said she was released Wednesday after being arrested for allegedly helping insurgents.
Kalshan al-Bayati, 33, of the London daily Al-Hayat, was arrested two days ago at her home in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, about 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Baghdad.
"They released me," Bayati said on Wednesday.
"I was treated well. They released me after they were convinced that I had no links with insurgents."
She said she was working on an article about the activities of insurgents in and around Tikrit when she was detained by security forces.
The officers went to her Tikrit residence on Sunday and arrested her and her brother Najad, a security official had said on Tuesday.
Her brother remained in detention on Wednesday, Bayati said, but added that a computer and car that they had confiscated from her were returned to her.
Bayati is a Sunni Turkmen with family ties to an Al-Arabiya satellite television journalist, Atwar Bahjat, according to local media.
Bahjat was killed in February while reporting on the dynamiting of the Shiite Ali al-Hadi Mausoleum in the northern town of Samarra.
