BAGHDAD (AFP) - An Iraqi freelance journalist working as a stringer for the news agency Agence France-Presse has been abducted in the country's war-torn capital after visiting a relative in a government-run jail.
Bilal Abdelrahman al-Obeidi disappeared on August 14 after he visited a detention centre near the interior ministry in central Baghdad to see his cousin.
Obeidi's family and AFP have been in contact with his captors using his mobile telephone, but the kidnappers have not identified themselves nor made any demands apart from asking for recharge codes for their own telephones.
The kidnapping has been reported to the Iraqi government and the US military, which coordinates security in Baghdad, but AFP only decided to publicise it after failing to persuade Obeidi's captors to release him.
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