Libya - Call for release of newspaper editor held for more than three months

Reporters without borders

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of Amara Abdallah Al-Khitabi, the editor of the privately-owned newspaper Al-Umma, since 19 December 2012 and calls for his immediate release. Khitabi is charged with defaming and insulting the judiciary because the 21 November issue of his newspaper carried a list of 87 judges and prosecutors suspected of corruption. The list's origin was not mentioned but, according to the information obtained by Reporters Without (...)

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