![]() “It is in every Libyan’s interest to ensure that media personnel can work safely, without fear of being threatened, attacked, kidnapped or murdered.” “Reporters Without Borders is extremely worried by the situation in Libya three years after the start of the uprising against the Gadhafi dictatorship and urges the authorities to do everything possible to improve the environment in which the country’s journalists work,” the group said. In a statement Wednesday, RSF condemned what it described at “the steadily mounting violence against media personnel in Libya.” It’s not clear who is behind the kidnappings. The other three – all of them state television employees – remain missing. He had been abducted from outside a cafe in central Tripoli a day earlier. One, the editor of a state-owned newspaper, was released on Tuesday. The attack was the latest in a wave of violence targeting Libyan media.Įarlier this month, an armed attack on Libya al-Ahrar TV in the eastern city of Benghazi damaged the building and broadcast equipment.Īnd this week, four Libyan journalists were kidnapped in two separate incidents in Tripoli, said Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The channel is viewed as critical of Islamist parties in Libya especially now, during a time of heightened political polarization in the country. The gunmen made the staff leave the building first, the station said.Īl-Asema TV is a privately owned channel affiliated with Mahmoud Jibril, the country’s interim Prime Minister during the 2011 revolution, and his National Front Alliance (NFA), the liberal political bloc in the General National Congress, Libya’s parliament. Armed men attacked the Tripoli headquarters of a privately owned Libyan television channel early Wednesday, causing extensive damage to the building, al-Asema TV reported.Īt least seven masked men attacked the station just after midnight with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, causing heavy damage to the building and broadcasting equipment and setting part of it on fire, the station reported.
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