Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Journalist Freed

Today four journalist were released from Libya after being detained for 6 weeks for not having visas.
Among those four prisoners were two American journalist. James Foley was one of those journalist who works for the GlobalPost. Upon being released the prisoners did not make any comments to the press.
The other American is Clara Morgana Gillis who writes for USAtoday. She said this "We are all fine."
They are being held in a Rixos hotel and will be escorted to Tunisia. They have guards waiting for them at the boarder. They hope to be home soon.
A British Journalist also was being held by the Libyan government. Nigel Chandler made a comment shortly after making it to the hotel. He had burns on his arms but said that they were not from the treatment while being detained.
They are not sure when they will get them back home but they want to make sure that they get home safe.

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