Kenya frees Pakistani

Published July 8, 2003

NAIROBI, July 7: Kenya on Monday released without charge a Pakistani national who had been detained on suspicion of having links to a Somalia-based Islamic militant group, the suspect told journalists.

Naveed Anwar Mohamed was released after High Court Judge Tom Mbaluto issued an order to police for his immediate release because no charges had been brought against him since his arrest on June 28.

Mohamed was arrested at the Young Muslim Association, an Islamic school in the North Eastern provincial capital Garissa, but had not yet been taken to court.

He was suspected of having links with al-Ittihad al-Islam group based in Somalia, which the United States has often accused of being linked to Al Qaeda network.—AFP

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