Dorothy Parvaz back home
Posted May 19, 2011 12:47 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Journalist Dorothy Parvaz is back with her family in BC after being released from detention in Iran.
Parvaz hugged relatives upon her arrival at Vancouver International Airport and her father said she looked “great.”
The journalist, who is from North Vancouver, was on assignment for Al-Jazeera’s English-language news network when she was detained by Syrian authorities April 29th. She was then deported to Iran, where she also has citizenship, and held in detention there.
Nobody heard from Parvaz until Tuesday, when she called her family to say she’d been released and returned to Qatar, where Al-Jazeera is based. At the airport, she told reporters she is happy to be back and anxious to spend time with her family, but declined further comment.
