Reply #35: The Guardian update on journalists missing/detained/killed in Libya

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5.04pm

An update on the situation for foreign press in Libya. The Agence France-Press news agency says two of their journalists and another photographer who was travelling with them have gone missing while reporting on fighting between Gaddafi forces and rebels.

AFP says Dave Clarke and photographers Roberto Schmidt and Joe Raedle (who works for Getty Images) went missing before meeting Gadaffi opponents on Saturday. The three were working near the city of Tobruk, in eastern Libya, near the border with Egypt – an area largely under rebel control.

Ali Hassan Al Jaber, a cameraman for Al-Jazeera was shot dead last week in what appeared to be an ambush while another Libyan journalist was also reportedly killed <Mohammed Nabbous, confirmed killed>.

Four journalists for The New York Times were detained by government forces in the east of Libya last week but although the authorities said they would be released there has been no confirmation of this.

Ian Black told us earlier that the movements of journalists are being tightly controlled.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/mar/20/libya-air-strikes-live-updates