15 Sep 2009

A British filmmaker from the northwestern city of Liverpool has been freed following his incarceration without charge in the Republic of Congo.

Graham Hughes, 30, was arrested last week in Brazzaville, the country's capital, while on a round-the-world charity tour. He had been taken into custody at a checkpoint and held since September 10, when security officers accused him of taking pictures of “political figures.”

His arrest in the Central African state was the globetrotter's second in his attempt to travel to some 192 world states by public means of transportation.

Hughes had earlier been taken into custody in June at Santiago - the largest island of Cape Verde - on allegations of unlawful entry into the country.

The video director set off for his global charity journey from West Derby in January. He has great hopes of raising 1 million British pounds (nearly $1.65 million) for the London-based WaterAid, a charity dedicated to providing safe drinking water and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.

The thirty-year-old adventurer captures episodes of his journey on camera for transmission on Lonely Planet Television and for display in National Geographic.

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