Index on Censorship » Zawiya 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 » Zawiya http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org 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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