<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060910/ap_on_re_mi_ea/sudan_us_journalist"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060909/capt.c79c1613030048148447855b458ff19b.sudan_us_jou rnalist_cai101.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=O_AUbBgcQVVtjlTi IaiqCQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="The American journalist Paul Salopek, left, who was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges, walks with his wife Linda Lynch, before a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006. The Chicago Tribune journalist, who was freed along with his Chadian driver and interpreter, said during a brief news conference in this Sudanese capital that his 'treatment was excellent.' Salopek, 44, was on assignment for National Geographic magazine when he was arrested last month and accused of passing information illegally, writing 'false news' and entering the African country without a visa. Bill Richardson, the governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, traveled to Sudan on Friday to meet with President Omar al-Bashir and persuaded him to release Salopek and his colleagues.(AP Photo/Abd Raouf)" border="0" /></a>AP - American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges.</p><br clear="all"/>
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