Nouvelle brève

- 5 April: Four journalists went missing in the east of the country. They were James Foley, a US reporter working for GlobalPost.com, Stars and Stripes and Al-Jazeera; Spanish freelance photographer Manu Brabo; Clare Morgana Gillis, a US freelancer who was covering events in the east of the country for The Atlantic magazine’s website and other US media; and South African freelance photographer Anton Hammerl. Foley, Brabo and Gillis were together when they were arrested by pro-Gaddafi forces. Foley and Brabo were held together and were allowed to contact their families on 23 April. Gillis, who was transferred to a women’s prison in Tripoli, was allowed to contact her family on 21 and 26 April. She told her family that Hammerl was not with them when they were arrested. However, the Austrian foreign ministry said he was alive and that it was negotiating his release with the authorities in Tripoli.