Al-Jazeera says one of its senior writers has been captured in Germany at the solicitation of Egypt.
Ahmed Mansour, who meets expectations for the channel's Arabic-dialect administration, was confined as he attempted to get onto a flight from Berlin to Qatar.
A German police authority said Egyptian powers had issued a universal capture warrant for Mr Mansour.
A court in Egypt's capital Cairo sentenced him to 15 years in jail in absentia a year ago on torment charges.
Al-Jazeera says the cases made against Mr Mansour, who has double British and Egyptian citizenship, are foolish and false.
"I am still in custody at Berlin airplane terminal, holding up to be taken in the witness of a researching judge," Mr Mansour, 52, tweeted on Saturday night.
Al-Jazeera correspondent that he is relied upon to stay in care until Monday when he will go before a German judge.
A police representative said the capture was set aside a few minutes (13:20 GMT).
He included that the Egyptian-issued capture warrant blamed Mr Mansour for perpetrating "a few unlawful acts" however he gave no further points of interest.
'Truly preposterous'
Al-Jazeera said the Egyptian warrant was beforehand rejected by universal police body Interpol as it didn't meet its principles.
In a feature recorded while confined, Mr Mansour portrayed the episode as a "misconception" and said he trusted it would be determined rapidly.
"It is truly ridiculous that a nation like Germany would implement and backing such a solicitation made by an oppressive administration like the one we have in Egypt," he included.
Relations in the middle of Doha and Cairo have been strained by Qatar's backing for the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood association in Egypt.
Three al-Jazeera writers, including Australian Peter Greste, were captured in Egypt in 2013 on charges of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mr Greste was ousted to Australia in the wake of being held for more than a year.
The other two - Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed - were discharged on safeguard in February pending a retrial.
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi went to Germany not long ago and met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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