Egyptian-American engineer Muhammad Radwan was released on Friday after one week in detention in Syria for filming last week's protests in the capital Damascus with a mobile phone dpa reported
"My sister just spoke to him. He sounded tired. He will be on the first plane back to Cairo," his cousin Tarek Shalaby told the German Press Agency dpa.
Radwan was at the Egyptian embassy in Syria with his father when he spoke to relatives by phone, said Shalaby.
A protest had been held in support of freeing Radwan, 32, outside the Syrian embassy in Cairo this week after his March 25 arrest.
An edited video of him being questioned by Syrian security was aired on Syrian state television. It showed Radwan saying a Colombian journalist had told him he would pay for pictures of the anti- government protests.
Radwan was also asked about a visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank. His family, however, denied he had ever visited either.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry had been pressing Syrian authorities to allow their diplomats access to him, eventually securing his release. Radwan, who also hold US citizenship, had been working in Syria for his father's company
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