Journalists free

IRAN has freed two German journalists arrested four months ago in connection with a highly-publicised stoning case.

Germany’s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle went to Tehran to bring a reporter and a photographer for Berlin-based tabloid newspaper Bild am Sonntag home after an Iranian court commuted their 20-month prison sentence to a fine of £30,860 (€36,628) each, state media reported.

Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch were found guilty of committing acts against Iran’s national security.