BERLIN: German journalist Eva Maria Michelmann, who went missing in Syria in January and was later confirmed to be detained there, returned to Germany on Friday, her lawyer told AFP. “It can be confirmed that Eva M. Michelmann was released this morning and returned to Germany this afternoon,” Roland Meister said. Michelmann was able to leave Syria via a third country and from there boarded a flight to Germany, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine.

Monatelang fehlte jede Spur von Eva Maria Michelmann. Inzwischen ist klar: Die syrische Regierung hält die Deutsche in Damaskus fest. Ihre Angehörigen sagen, die Bundesregierung…

Anfang des Jahres war Eva Maria Michelmann in Syrien verschwunden und zuletzt von der Regierung in Damaskus festgehalten worden. Nun hat das Auswärtige Amt nach Informationen des…