KABUL (Pajhwok): A former Australian soldier who was in a Kabul prison for the past seven years for murdering a colleague has been released following a presidential pardon, officials said Tuesday.
Robert Langdon, then a private security contractor working for the US military, was convicted in 2009 for shooting his Afghan colleague during a dispute while escorting a convoy to an American base.
Langdon, 44, has always maintained his innocence, claiming that he had killed in self-defence. He initially received a death sentence after he . . .
