Indian national Rajiv Mohan Kulshrestha, arrested in China for suspected terror links, has been released and deported back home on Saturday.
Kulshrestha was among a group of 20 foreign tourists, mostly elderly, who were detained in northern China earlier this week for suspected links to “a terror group”, according to reports by Britain’s Foreign Office and a South African charity.
The Indian embassy in Beijing had been negotiating for his release over the last few days.
China had agreed to release 11 of the tourists, but wished to hold the rest without charges at a detention centre in Inner Mongolia, the South African charity, Gift of the Givers Foundation had said.
Chinese authorities said some of those arrested had been watching propaganda videos from a banned group in their hotel room, the charity added in its statement.
Five South Africans, three Britons and one Indian national make up the nine being held, it said.
The group had been on a 47-day tour of the country when they were detained at an airport in the Inner Mongolian city of Erdos.