Libya - Militia holding two British journalists urged to surrender them to competent authorities

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the continuing detention of two British TV journalists, reporter Nicholas Davies-Jones and cameraman Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, who were arrested in Tripoli on 21 February by a Misrata-based militia and are still being held by the same militia. According to Human Rights Watch, three Libyans who were accompanying the journalists were also arrested. The journalists, freelancers who mainly work for Iran's state-owned English-language TV news station (...)

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