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On 28 April, armed militiamen kidnapped Mahmoud Al-Farjani, correspondent for Al-Arabiya, while he was covering a militia demonstration. He was held for seven hours during which he was beaten and threatened with death.
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AttacksOn 4 May, a group of armed men attacked Mabruka Almesmari, a female freelance photojournalist, during a peaceful protest in Benghazi against the sieges of government ministries in Tripoli and the pressure by certain groups to pass a Political Isolation Law that would purge former officials of Muammar Gaddafi’s ousted regime.
AttacksThree television journalists were briefly abducted in Libya in April 2013.
AttacksIn one of the latest cases, journalists were attacked by parliamentary security personnel on 20 April while covering a conference on “Reconciliation in Southern Libya” that the government and Libya’s legislature, the General National Congress (GNC), organized mainly for the benefit of the Tebu and Awlad Suleiman tribes.
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4 December 2012
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12 November 2012
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