{"id":329609,"date":"2011-03-22T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/22\/libya-ten-journalists-missing-in-conflict-zone\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:42:15","slug":"libya-ten-journalists-missing-in-conflict-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/libya-ten-journalists-missing-in-conflict-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Ten Journalists Missing in Conflict Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"62.4591646715\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>22 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Stephane Lehr, a French photographer working for the Polaris Images agency, went missing on Sunday in the region of the Libyan city of Benghazi, Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lehr&#8217;s disappearance brings the number of Western journalists missing in Libya to four, after three others disappeared late last week.<\/p>\n<p>The press freedom watchdog said Lehr went missing shortly after arriving in Benghazi with a French television crew.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Polaris Images boss Jean-Pierre Pappis said the last contact with Lehr was a message received Sunday afternoon, which read, &#8220;I have just arrived in Benghazi. I am trying to leave this afternoon for the front. Nothing is certain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another journalist said Lehr had set out in the direction of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>Three other Western journalists, including two from Agence France-Presse, also disappeared at the weekend while heading to Ajdabiya, where Kadhafi loyalists have been fighting rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, both with AFP, and Getty Images photographer Joe Raedle have not been seen or heard from since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Their driver, Mohammed Hamed, told AFP that he took the three journalists on Saturday from Tobruk toward Ajdabiya, when they were intercepted by a convoy of military jeeps and transport vehicles operated by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.<\/p>\n<p>The interpreter who accompanied them, Sudki Abdulkarim Jibril, told rebel radio station Radio Tobruk that their vehicle was pursued before the soldiers shot out their tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Hamed and Jibril say the three journalists were arrested and taken away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know where they were taken,&#8221; Jibril said. &#8220;They were allowed to keep their telephones but not their cameras.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reporters Without Borders also reports six Libyan journalists are missing and that four Al-Jazeera journalists who were arrested near the western town of Zawiya are being held by pro-Kadhafi forces.<\/p>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110322-french-photographer-goes-missing-near-benghazi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103220978.html\" title=\"Libya: Ten Journalists Missing in Conflict Zone\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Libya: Ten Journalists Missing in Conflict Zone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 22 March 2011 Stephane Lehr, a French photographer working for the Polaris Images agency, went missing on Sunday in the region of the Libyan city of Benghazi, Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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