Index on Censorship » Tripoli http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Sat, 18 May 2013 18:40:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Tripoli http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Libya: New York Times journalists to be freed http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/libya-new-york-times-journalists-to-be-freed/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/libya-new-york-times-journalists-to-be-freed/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:59:05 +0000 Mohammad Fakhar Zaman http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=21557 Four New York Times journalists who had gone missing in Libya will be released soon, it was reported on Friday. The journalists had entered Libya through Egypt and were reporting from the rebel held city of Ajdabiya, which was then overrun by the pro-Gadaffi army and they were arrested. Libyan officials have indicated that the [...]

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]]> missing in Libya will be released soon, it was reported on Friday. The journalists had entered Libya through Egypt and were reporting from the rebel held city of Ajdabiya, which was then overrun by the pro-Gadaffi army and they were arrested. Libyan officials have indicated that the journalists will be released very soon. Four Al Jazeera journalists are also said to be in custody in Tripoli, while two Agence France-Presse journalists and a Getty Images photographer have been missing in Libya since Saturday.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/libya-new-york-times-journalists-to-be-freed/feed/ 0 Libya: BBC news team beaten up by Gaddafi’s forces http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/libya-bbc-news-team-beaten-up-by-gaddafis-forces/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/libya-bbc-news-team-beaten-up-by-gaddafis-forces/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:51:29 +0000 Mohammad Fakhar Zaman http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=21166 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. [...]

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]]> 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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