Television reporter Marie Jeanne Ion, crying, and cameraman Sorin Miscoci, left, both of Prima TV, two of the Romanian journalists freed on Sunday from Iraq, are welcomed by relatives Monday in Bucharest, Romania.

Baghdad, Iraq ? Three Romanian journalists who had been held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months arrived home aboard a military plane Monday, a day after their release.

TV reporter Marie Jeanne Ion and cameraman Sorin Miscoci, and newspaper reporter Ovidiu Ohanesian were kidnapped in Baghdad on March 28 with their guide, American-Iraqi Mohammed Monaf. The four were freed Sunday.

Iraqi insurgents had demanded Romania withdraw its soldiers from Iraq. Bucharest rejected the demand. The three journalists were greeted Monday by Romania’s President Traian Basescu and hundreds of journalists and friends.