Detained journalist reunited with her family in B.C.

VANCOUVER - Journalist Dorothy Parvaz is back with her family in B.C. after being released from detention in Iran.

Parvaz hugged relatives upon her arrival at Vancouver International Airport and her father said she looked "great."

The B.C. journalist was on assignment for Al-Jazeera's English-language news network when she was detained by Syrian authorities April 29.

She was then deported to Iran, where she also has citizenship, and held in detention there.

Nobody heard from Parvaz until Tuesday, when she called her family in North Vancouver to say she'd been released and returned to Qatar, where Al-Jazeera is based.

At the airport she told reporters she is happy to be back and anxious to spend time with her family, but declined further comment.

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  Journalist Dorothy Parvaz stops very briefly to talk to reporters as she waits for her family to pick her up after arriving in Canada at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Thursday May 19, 2011. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS)