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Family 'relieved' after Australian professor Timothy Weeks freed in Taliban prisoner swap

Timothy Weekes making a statement on camera while in captivity.

Timothy Weekes appeared pale and drawn in a video released in January, 2017. Source: AAP

Australian Timothy Weeks and American Kevin King have been released by the Taliban as part of a stalled hostage swap deal.


Australian academic Tim Weeks has been released by the Taliban, along with his American colleague Kevin King, three years after they were abducted in Afghanistan.

The release of Mr Weeks, 50, and Mr King, 63, both professors at the American University in Kabul, comes one week after President Ashraf Ghani announced that Afghanistan would free three high-ranking Taliban prisoners in an apparent swap that he hoped would help jumpstart peace talks.

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