Exiled Chechen independence leader Akhmed Zakayev has been freed from custody in Poland after being arrested earlier in the day on a Russian warrant accusing him of terrorism. Poland respects democratic values, Zakayev said in a live broadcast shown by a television channel, smiling as he left a Warsaw court house. He said that he planned to attend the final day of a congress of Chechens near Warsaw, the event that had drawn him to Poland in the first place. Zakayev, 51, had arrived in Poland on Thursday to attend the three-day congress of some 300 exiles from conflict-torn Chechnya.