Iranian missing for nearly 2 weeks turns up in Germany, taken to hospital

Missing Iranian turns up after nearly 2 weeks

BERLIN — German police say an exiled Iranian artist and filmmaker has turned up in Cologne after being missing for nearly two weeks.

Cologne police spokesman Andre Fassbender said Daryush Shokof was found completely drenched near the Rhine river late Saturday night.

Fassbender said Monday that the 55-year-old Berlin resident was taken to a hospital but is in stable condition. He said police are looking into the case but can give no details yet.

A committee of Shokof’s friends said in an e-mail Sunday night that Shokof apparently had been kidnapped, but Fassbender said that is speculation and he would not comment.

Shokof has made films critical of the Iranian government and his supporters say he had received threatening phone calls.