(CNN) -- An anti-drone activist and journalist from Pakistan has been released, more than a week after he was abducted from his home in Rawalpindi. Kareem Khan told reporters Friday how he was abducted by armed men who showed up at his family's home in the early hours of February 5, and then tortured him while he was in captivity. Khan, from the tribal area of North Waziristan, lost his son and brother to a 2009 CIA drone strike, and had been set to travel to Europe to meet with parliamentarians when he disappeared, lawyer Shazad Akbar said in a news release.
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Anti-drone activist and journalist Kareem Khan is freed, nine days after his abduction
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Khan says he was seized by armed men, taken to a basement and tortured
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His abductors hung him upside down, beat his feet and shackled him, he says
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Khan was due to travel to Europe to talk to lawmakers about drone strikes that killed relatives
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