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He was held captive in Afghanistan for over five months. A Japanese journalist, who never thought he would get out of the prison alive, now has quite a story to tell.
Kosuke Tsuneoka managed to get a message out of the prison, via Twitter, after one of his captor’s asked him how to use his new cellphone. Days before his release, one of the militants charged with guarding Tsuneoka came to the freelance writer with his new cellphone and asked him if he could help set it up.
According to Tsuneoka, the militants wanted to watch Al-Jazeera TV on the phone, but, the cunning journalist turned them on to Twitter, getting the captors to ask for a demonstration.
“That’s how I got the message out,” said Tsuneoka during a Tuesday news conference, “I’m sure they never thought they were tricked.”
Tsuneoka said, a couple of days later he was freed, after the militants learned that the Japanese journalist was Muslim. He converted to Islam in 2000.
This wasn’t the journalist’s first time being held captive. Tsuneoka disappeared in the former-Soviet republic of Georgia in 2001 and was held for several months by unidentified captors, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement.
This time around, Tsuneoka was abducted in April after visiting northern Afghanistan, an area known to be controlled by the Taliban. He was released over the weekend to the Japanese Embassy.
