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Al-Jazeera airs video of hostages

Canadian hostages - Taken in December
Canadian hostages - Taken in December

A videotape of three peace activists who were taken hostage in Iraq has been broadcast on Arabic television station Al-Jazeera.

74-year-old British hostage Norman Kember, who was seized in Baghdad with two Canadians and a US citizen in November, appears on the tape which was broadcast without audio.

The men, all members of peace group Christian Peacemaker, were last seen in a video clip broadcast in January.

A group calling itself the Swords of Truth has demanded that all Iraqi prisoners be freed.