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Saturday 19 March 2011
Dangerous times for journalists in Libya
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Journalists, including two New York Times photographers who are currently missing, run for cover near Ras Lanuf, 11 March 2011
Reuters/Paul Conroy
By Molly Guinness

Over the past few weeks, journalists in Libya have have been arrested, tortured and disappeared, even killed. Four New York Times journalists were arrested in Ajdabya on Tuesday and have been in custody ever since. Reporters from the British newspaper the Guardian and Brazilian paper O Estado de S. Paolo were also detained by Libyan leader Moamer Gadaffi's security forces. Three BBC journalists were subjected to 21 hours of torture, and last weekend an Al Jazeera cameraman was shot dead in Benghazi.

tags : Kidnapping - Libya - Media - Moamer Kadhafi - Torture
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