THE GUARDIAN: Amnesty International has added to the calls for the Libyan authorities to release Ghaith Abdul-AhadIntensive efforts are continuing to persuade the Libyan government to release Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who was detained 11 days ago while reporting from the country.
Libya's foreign ministry confirmed last week that it was holding Abdul-Ahad, but there has been no word on his whereabouts and no explanation of why he is still being detained after a Brazilian journalist he was travelling with was freed last Thursday.
Abdul-Ahad and Andrei Netto, a correspondent for the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S Paulo, were picked up in the coastal town of Sabratha on March 2 then moved to a prison on the outskirts of the capital Tripoli.
The Guardian has been in contact with Libyan officials in Tripoli and London as well as Arab and international figures and asked them urgently to give all assistance in securing Abdul-Ahad's release. There is particular concern that he has had no access to a lawyer. » | Ian Black | Sunday, March 13, 2011
