Libya: BBC news team beaten up by Gaddafi’s forces

10 Mar 2011

A BBC news team trying to reach the town of Zawiya were detained, beaten and subjected to mock executions by pro-Gaddafi forces. The team of three were detained on Monday at an army roadblock and taken to a military barracks in Tripoli where they were held for 21 hours. After release they left the country.

The Guardian reports today that its correspondent, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, and his travelling companion Andrei Netto, from the Brazilian newspaper Estado, are missing in Libya.  Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi national, was last in touch with the paper through a third party on Sunday.

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  1. FinWeek

    March 15, 2011 at 19:40

    Really the situation in Libya and Middle East created new financial and crude oil crisis, which in my eyes will be harder than the one happened last year. Terrible, but such dictators should be removed from the governments.

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