{"id":33646,"date":"2012-03-05T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33646"},"modified":"2012-03-05T15:11:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:11:43","slug":"libya-british-journalists-accused-of-spying-by-militia-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33646","title":{"rendered":"Libya: British journalists accused of spying by militia group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two British journalists have been <a title=\"Guardian: British journalists accused by militia group of spying in Libya\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/mar\/04\/british-journalists-accused-spying-libya\" target=\"_blank\">accused of spying<\/a> in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Libya\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Libya\" target=\"_blank\">Libya<\/a>\u00a0by a militia group who arrested them last month.\u00a0Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, 36, and Nicholas Davies, 37, from Iran&#8217;s state-owned Press TV\u00a0<a title=\"Huffington Post: British Journalists Nicholas Davies And Gareth Montgomery-Johnson Arrested In Libya\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2012\/02\/24\/two-british-journalists-arrested-libya_n_1300045.html?ref=uk\" target=\"_blank\">were arrested<\/a> by the militia group in Tripoli on 23 February. In a late-night press conference,\u00a0Dr Suleiman Fortia, a Misratan member of\u00a0Libya&#8217;s ruling National Transitional Council\u00a0showed what he said was suspicious material found on the two men, including\u00a0a field dressing,\u00a0photographs and a photocopy of an Iranian residence permit. Fortia added that the group had governmental\u00a0authority to hold the men because they represented the &#8220;February 17 Revolution&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two British journalists have been accused of spying in Libya\u00a0by a militia group who arrested them last month.\u00a0Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, 36, and Nicholas Davies, 37, from Iran&#8217;s state-owned Press TV\u00a0were arrested by the militia group in Tripoli on 23 February. In a late-night press conference,\u00a0Dr Suleiman Fortia, a Misratan member of\u00a0Libya&#8217;s ruling National Transitional Council\u00a0showed what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[346,4375,2028,7416,4376,727,3426,4377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33674,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33646\/revisions\/33674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}