Ahmed Mansour, a senior Al Jazeera Arabic TV journalist, was detained at a Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian authorities.
Mansour was arrested at Berlin's Tegel airport at 1320 GMT on Saturday as he tried to board a Qatar Airways flight from Berlin to Doha.
In a phone call, Mansour told Al Jazeera that he would remain in custody until Monday when he will face a German judge who will decide on his case.
Mansour was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison by Cairo's criminal court in 2014 on the charge of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square in 2011.
Mansour rejected the charges as absurd, while Al Jazeera dismissed the accusation as a flimsy attempt at character assassination against of one of its leading journalists.
In October 2014, the global police organisation Interpol rejected Egypt's request for an international arrest warrant against Mansour.
In an email to Al Jazeera’s lawyers, Interpol confirmed receiving a request from Egypt’s National Central Bureau about Mr. Mansour, but said that the red notice request “did not meet Interpol’s rules”.
From Al Jazeera's Ahmed Mansour
I am now in detention in berlin airport in Germany as I was heading back to Doha.  
Ahmed Mansour [Al Jazeera]
The airport authorities detained me based on an Interpol order at the request of the Egyptian authorities.  I informed [ the police] that the global police organisation has rejected Egypt's request and that I have this document from the Interpol to prove that I am not wanted in any charge. I also told them that all the cases that were filed against me in Egypt were fabricated. They, however, insisted on holding me in their detention centre for investigation. They told me that they will transfer me to face an investigating judge, who will determine my case.  
I refused to sign the detention request until I speak to my lawyer who just got here.  We hope that this misunderstanding will be resolved quickly. It is quite ludicrous that a country like Germany would enforce and support such a request made by a dictatorial regime like the one we have in Egypt. The Interpol itself cleared my name with this document that I have in my hands.
Source: Al Jazeera
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