Police in Georgia say that a parliamentary deputy who was kidnapped last week has been released unharmed.

The man, Petre Tsiskarishvili, who was abducted together with his fiancee Anna Surmava in a park in the capital Tbilisi, was taken to the Pankis Gorge, across the border from the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya.

A spokesman, Kakha Targamadze, said the two were released after days of talks with their abductors and without any conditions.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service