{"id":426977,"date":"2011-05-19T18:07:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/19\/3-journalists-freed-by-libya-now-in-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T18:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:07:44","slug":"3-journalists-freed-by-libya-now-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/3-journalists-freed-by-libya-now-in-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"3 journalists freed by Libya now in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"69\">\n<div readability=\"33\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four journalists covering the Libyan conflict were captured by that country&#8217;s military<\/li>\n<li>Three of them have crossed into Tunisia; it is not known where the fourth one is<\/li>\n<li>A judge releases them after they pay a fine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>(CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; Three journalists who were released by Libyan officials crossed into Tunisia Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists were among four who were captured by the Libyan military and imprisoned for weeks. They were originally sentenced to jail for a year, but a Libyan government spokesman announced their release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the fourth journalist was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim said a judge released the four journalists after ordering them to pay a fine for entering the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>After their release, Ibrahim spoke with the four journalists in a hotel lobby in Tripoli and told them they were welcome to stay and work in Libya. The government can issue them journalist visas, he told them.<\/p>\n<p>Since violence erupted in Libya in February, the Committee to Protect Journalists has tallied more than 80 attacks on members of the news media, including four deaths and 49 detentions.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists have called upon the Libyan government to account for missing journalists covering the conflict there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN&#8217;s Jomana Karadsheh and Nima Elbagir contributed to this report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/edition_africa\/~3\/g10lZnnK3FI\/index.html\" title=\"3 journalists freed by Libya now in Tunisia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3 journalists freed by Libya now in Tunisia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> STORY HIGHLIGHTS Four journalists covering the Libyan conflict were captured by that country&#8217;s military Three of them have crossed into Tunisia; it is not known where the fourth one is A judge releases them after they pay a fine (CNN) &#8212; Three journalists who were released by Libyan officials crossed into Tunisia Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3 journalists freed by Libya now in Tunisia - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/3-journalists-freed-by-libya-now-in-tunisia\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"3 journalists freed by Libya now in Tunisia - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"STORY HIGHLIGHTS Four journalists covering the Libyan conflict were captured by that country&#039;s military Three of them have crossed into Tunisia; 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