( CNN ) -- An Al Jazeera reporter who disappeared after landing in the Syrian capital of Damascus last month to cover anti-government protests has been released , the network said early Wednesday . The network said Dorothy Parvaz was safe and well in Doha , where her fiance had gone to greet her . The journalist will head to Canada . Al Jazeera lost contact with Parvaz after she disembarked from a Qatar Airways flight from Iran on April 29 . In a statement last week , Syria said the 39-year-old journalist was taken into custody after she arrived in Damascus with an expired passport and deported to Iran two days later . But Iran 's state news agency IRNA quoted Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Saturday as saying the Islamic republic had `` no information '' about her . A statement that Parvaz 's fiance , Todd Barker , posted on the `` Free Dorothy Parvaz '' Facebook page indicated she had been taken to Iran . `` She said that she was treated well in Iran . She sounded positive and grateful for the support - but a little embarrassed . We are very thankful to Iranian authorities for her release and good treatment , '' the statement said . Added an Al Jazeera spokesman : `` We are with her now to find out more about her ordeal over the last 18 days . '' Syria has been roiled for six weeks by anti-government protests and has largely prevented foreign journalists from covering the unrest . Media organizations have been relying on social media , eyewitness accounts and cell-phone video to report the story . Thousands of supporters from around the world started a social media campaign on Facebook and Twitter in an effort to draw attention to her disappearance . Dozens of international journalists have been detained and expelled from Syria since March 15 , when anti-government protests began , said Mohamed Abdel Dayem , program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists in the Middle East and North Africa .
NEW : Her fiance thanks Iran for Parvaz 's release . Syria says it deported the Al Jazeera reporter to Iran . Iran says it has `` no information '' about her whereabouts . Al Jazeera says Dorothy Parvaz is safe and well in Doha .