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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/three-weeks-after-capture-american-journalists-remain-in-libyan-prison/8875/
Others have been held and interrogated for weeks by the Libyan government, without formal charges or even a basic explanation for their detention. James Foley, an American journalist who contributed reporting to GlobalPost and the PBS NewsHour, was detained on April 5 outside Brega during clashes between rebels and government troops. Foley and two other journalists, American Clare Gillis and Manu Brabo, a Spanish photographer, were attacked by Gadhafi loyalists and taken captive, according to eyewitnesses.
Foley had been covering the opposition movement in Benghazi since early March, and had followed the rebels to the front lines as they pushed westward toward Tripoli. In one of his first dispatches for GlobalPost, he wrote that in Benghazi, “Even an ordinary job appears fraught with danger.”
Foley and the other detained journalists have since been transferred to a detention center in Tripoli, and until recently, there has been little news regarding their condition. On Saturday, for the first time in the three weeks since his capture, Foley was allowed to contact his parents in Massachusetts by phone. In an interview Tuesday, Foley’s mother Diane said her son was healthy and in good spirits when he called, and that he was hopeful he would be released soon.
“He sounded very positive and very strong,” Ms. Foley said. “That’s our Jim.”
Foley said he was still unsure where, exactly, he was being held, or when he’ll be freed. He has been interrogated “a lot,” Ms. Foley said, though the Libyan government has declined to charge him formally with a crime or even explain why he has been detained for so long.
“We’re no closer to him being released in a lot of ways,” Ms. Foley said. “He’s still very much imprisoned there in Libya. And we’re still not sure if and when they’ll allow him to be released.”
Foley’s parents have been in daily contact with officials at the State Department, who have been working intensively for the release of both American journalists. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the Libyan government to release all American citizens “unjustly detained,” including Foley and Gillis. And New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has contacted the Turkish embassy, which helped secure the release of four captured New York Times journalists in March.
makes you wonder what Mr. Foley discovered…