The Taliban released two journalists working with the United Nations’s refugee agency Friday, the organization announced on social media.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s deputy minister of culture and information, wrote on social media the journalists were detained for not having the proper documents that identified them as workers with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Once their identities were confirmed, Mujahid said the two were let go, according to a translation provided by the Associated Press.

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