Reply #16: US reporters detained (for over a month) in Libya receive first visit

[joshcryer]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jML-YxCo9Rt-dyu0agOfVoupVcVg?docId=CNG.67223d9bde54fd50f17c3160a0ed4d59.eb1">US reporters detained in Libya receive first visit
WASHINGTON — Two US reporters and a Spanish photographer held in Libya have received their first visits since they were detained over a month ago amid indications they may be released soon.

Philip Balboni, chief executive of GlobalPost.com, told AFP on Wednesday that members of the diplomatic corps in Tripoli had met with James Foley, a freelance reporter with GlobalPost, and Clare Morgana Gillis of The Atlantic.

They also met separately with a Spanish photographer, Manu Brabo, who is being held with the two American journalists, the CEO of the Boston-based GlobalPost said.

"It was the fist time that they were seen by someone who was not a member of the Libyan government" since they were detained on April 5, Balboni said.