Aussie businessman safe<\/p>\n
CANBERRA (AP): An Australian businessman was detained by
\nIndonesian authorities on the strife-torn island of Ambon after
\nthey discovered two guns on his boat, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n
Sydney adventurer Hans Tholstrup, 54, was safe in a hotel on
\nAmbon after being released without charges being laid, Department
\nof Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman Tony Melville said.<\/p>\n
Late Friday, Tholstrup told freelance television cameramen
\nDanny Sim by satellite telephone he was being held captive by the
\nIndonesian military, who he feared would kill him.<\/p>\n
Sim said Tholstrup told him he was under house arrest and that
\na soldier had a gun pointed at his head, before the line went
\ndead.<\/p>\n
Melville said on Saturday that a departmental official had
\nspoken to Tholstrup overnight, at the Wijaya Hotel.<\/p>\n
\"He is in a hotel in Ambon, customs has cleared him to leave,
\nour consular official in Jakarta spoke with them and he has not
\nbeen charged, nor is likely to be,\" Melville said.<\/p>\n
Tholstrup is en route from the northern Australian city of
\nDarwin to Japan in a 5-meter (yard) open boat. Sim, who is
\nvideotaping part of the journey, said Tholstrup was carrying two
\nguns because of fears of pirate in the Philippines.<\/p>",
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