British Rights Worker, Parents Freed
Posted on: Friday, 30 December 2005, 21:00 CST
Sources in the Palestinian security forces say British rights worker Kate Burton and her parents were freed Friday evening, CNN reported.
The family was reportedly in Khan Younis in Gaza with the security chief there.
Burton, 24, was abducted Wednesday along with her parents, Hugh and Win, as she showed them around Rafah -- part of the area in Gaza where she had been working for the past year for the Palestinian rights group Al Mezan.
The BBC said a group using the name The Mujahadeen Brigades delivered a video to a television station in Gaza. On the tape, a masked man holding a gun stood next to Burton and read a list of demands, while promising to release her and her parents as a gesture of good will. But British officials said they had received no official notice that the family was at liberty.
On the videotape, the gunman urged British officials to put pressure on Israel to meet its demands, and threatened to kidnap international observers in upcoming Palestinian Authority elections.
Source: United Press International
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