Three foreign reporters arrested

Agence France-Presse confirmed that two of its journalists, Briton Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, who has dual German and Colombian nationality, were arrested on 19 March a few dozen kilometres from Ajdabiya together with US photographer Joe Readle of Getty Images. AFP had not heard from its reporters since 18 March. There were released on the night of 22 March in Tripoli and arrived in Tunisia at noon the next day.