{"id":168212,"date":"2026-06-19T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/168212\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:36:08","slug":"german-journalist-detained-in-syria-has-been-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/168212\/","title":{"rendered":"German journalist detained in Syria has been released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A German journalist arrested in Syria in mid-January, Eva Maria Michelmann, has been released, her family confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her brother, Antonius Michelmann, told dpa she had been released, confirming reports published by the news magazine Der Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michelmann arrived from Jordan on Friday afternoon. &#8220;We went to collect her,&#8221; her brother said. He added that she was doing well, given the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said that she had been held in solitary confinement for an extended period, but did not provide any further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Syrian Ministry of Information said earlier that the journalist, who is from Cologne, was arrested on January 18 in the city of Raqqa during a military operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Kurdish journalist, Ahmed Polad, who is a Turkish citizen, was also detained at the time. There is still no trace of this colleague, said Antonius Michelmann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A German journalist arrested in Syria in mid-January, Eva Maria Michelmann, has been released, her family confirmed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[52257,31033,52259,52258,95],"class_list":["post-168212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-antonius-michelmann","tag-eva-maria-michelmann","tag-german-journalist","tag-rotraut-hake-michelmann","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116777987753150798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}