http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/gaddafi-sons-reporters-arrest\ ed-in-libya-20101109-17kqu.html <http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/gaddafi-sons-reporters-arres\ ted-in-libya-20101109-17kqu.html> Gaddafi son's reporters arrested in Libya
November 9, 2010 AFP Libyan police have arrested 20 journalists working for titles close to the reformist son of veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi, amid a mounting backlash from conservatives, their employer said on Monday. The Oea weekly and the Libyapress news agency, both run by the Al-Ghad publishing company sponsored by Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, said that 10 of their journalists had been picked up by agents of the Internal Security Agency, among them three Tunisians and two Egyptians. A further 10 journalists working for Al-Ghad titles were rounded up in a second wave of arrests, the company said. Libyapress condemned what it called the "shameful and scandalous" detention of its staff and demanded their immediate release. Al-Ghad said it had been ordered to suspend publication of Oea after the state printing press produced its own version of the paper on Sunday with the slightly amended title Sabah Oea (Morning Oea) but with the same masthead and editor's name. The company said the "fake" government version had no connection with the real paper and condemned what it called a "first in the annals of the Libyan press". The Al-Ghad titles said the arrests may have come in response to an editorial in Oea calling for a return to government of some of the leaders of the 1969 revolution that brought Gaddafi to power who have since been driven from office. The editorial said that the return of men like Abdelsalem Jalloud, currently without any public position, would help in the fight against rampant corruption. Other Libyan sources said that the security police had also been angered by the publication by Libyapress last Thursday of a report that 1980s strongman Ahmed Ibrahim had launched a campaign against the rehabilitation of political exiles, a key policy championed by Seif al-Islam. Since Oea and its sister title Quryna first hit the news stands in August 2007, the Al-Ghad titles have covered a raft of sensitive issues, including corruption, human rights and the Islamist opposition. The company already lost its television channel Al-Libiya in June last year when the government made broadcasting a state monopoly. Oea has also had to switch from being a daily to a weekly, officially for financial reasons. Long a key figure in Libya's foreign policy and an architect of the once pariah state's rapprochement with the West, Seif al-Islam has become an outspoken champion of domestic reform over the past three years. As well as greater press freedom and the return of exiles, he has advocated privatisation of big swathes of Libya's large state sector and the relaxation of restrictions on the Berber minority. © 2010 AFP <http://news.smh.com.au/action/displayCopyrightNotice?sourceOrganisation\ =AFP> <http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/gaddafi-sons-reporters-arres\ ted-in-libya-20101109-17kqu.html> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
