CAIRO—The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the top religious authority for Sunni Muslims, on Wednesday urged Islamist extremists in the Philippines to free a reporter with Al-Arabiya news channel seized in June. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb called upon kidnappers to "revert to right and religious principles... which stress that kidnapping and terrorism are prohibited," in a statement released by his office in Egypt's capital. He urged the kidnappers of Bakr Atyani, a Jordanian journalist working for Dubai-based Al-Arabiya, to set him free and let him "return safely" to his family. "This shameful act of kidnapping, terrorism and putting the lives of people at ...
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