* Al-Jazeera went Sunday afternoon 3. April, demanding that Norwegian citizen Ammar Al-Hamdan and three Al-Jazeera colleagues be released immediately from Gaddafi's prison. A few hours later, Lotfi Al-Massoudi was released and reached freedom in Tunisia.
* It was also Al-Massoudi who, when all four were given a few hours of freedom 31. March, interviewed on Tunisian TV and radio from Libya. Norwegian Ammar Al-Hamdan (33) will now be back in Tripoli prison.
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Imprisoned. Sunday 3. April, at 13.25, the English language websites went to Al Jazeera Español out with new demands on Libyan authorities:
Under the title "Free the four" writes Al-Jazeera 3. April:
"Al-Jazeera demands the immediate release of two correspondents and two cameramen who are again held by Gaddafi's forces."
Also the Committee to Protect Journalists now requires a release from the Libyan authorities.
A few hours later, night to Monday 4. In April, one of the four, the host Lotfi Al-Massoudi (Tunisia), was released and could reach freedom in Tunisia. The release was broadcast live on Al-Jazeera, as well as covered by, among other things CPJ.
Al-Massoudi was also the one who stood up and was interviewed on television and radio when they celebrated the 31. March, for the first time after being detained 7. March, got to go out into Tripoli streets.
Friday 1. April at 19.30 time was among others VG og NRK out with information about the new situation for Norwegian citizen Ammar Al-Hamdan (33) and his three colleagues, who were free for a few hours in Tripoli on Thursday 31. March:
Al-Hamdan and the other three were imprisoned by Gaddafi's forces again in Tripoli "just hours after their release," writes Al-Jazeera English.
And this imprisonment happens after "one of the journalists, Lotfi Al Masoudi, told Tunisian radio station Jawhara FM in a telephone interview that they had been released and had been treated well in captivity", informs Al-Jazeera English.
The website writes that Libya's authorities have not provided information on why or where journalists are being held.
Development is happening after the four reporters on Thursday 31. March, at 12.30 time, was released from the prison in Libya's capital.
Like the international press, the weekly magazine Ny Tid's website then reported on his release from prison, where the journalists have been most of the time since they were taken by Gaddafi's forces at Zintan, in northwestern Libya, on March 7. Al-Hamdan is a chamberlain from Al-Jazeera's Oslo office and has contributed to Ny Tid since 2009.
Al-Hamdan called 31 on Thursday afternoon. March itself from Tripoli to Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar. He had several phone calls that day and then gave the first sure sign of life in over three weeks.
Tunisia's ambassador to Tripoli, Slaheddine Jemmali, told the TAP news agency TAP that the four Al-Jazeera journalists were to move out of Libya and to Tunisa that evening.
In addition to Norwegian Al-Hamdan, who was born in Baghdad and has a Palestinian family background, this applies to these three Al-Jazeera journalists:
Lotfi Al-Messaoudi (citizen of Tunisia), Ahmad Vall Ould Addin (Mauritania) and Kamel Atalua (United Kingdom).
A number of media in the Middle East reported Thursday 31. March that the four were out of prison in Tripoli. So did French newspapers Le Figaro, with AFP as the source.
Tunisian citizen and Al-Jazeera journalist Lotfi Al-Messaoudi, who is sitting with Al-Hamdan, became 31 on the day. March interview by Tunisian radio station Jawhara FM.
In a TV interview same done via telephone from Tripoli, Al-Messaoudi told about what it was like to get out of prison. He spoke positively of his stay as a prisoner of Gaddafi in Tripoli.
Al-Jazeera informs 3. April that three of the journalists 31. March, during their "short time in freedom", "met their respective ambassadors in Tripoli to discuss the siutation and their departure to Tunisia the following day".
Ny Tid is aware that both Turkey, Mauritania and Qatar have been involved in negotiations with Gaddafi's authorities to get the captured journalists out of the country. It is also reported that Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has been involved in the negotiations.
Al-Jazeera went out with information about the prison in the evening 19. March, approximately when the international war broke out, following the decision of the UN Security Council 17. March.
On the morning of March 20, Ny Tid could tell about it the big political game that was going on to get the Al-Jazeera journalists out.
Al-Jazeera's English websites told 21. March on the families' protest, in Mauritania and Tunisia, against the four being held captive by Gaddafi.
The 23. In March, Al-Jazeera announced that Gaddafi would release Al-Hamdan and the others within 24 hours. It didn't happen.
Al-Hamdan has contributed to the weekly magazine Ny Tid since 2009, including as a writer for the column "Al-Jazeera about Norway". Among other things, he has been involved in interview Siv Jensen for Ny Tid and has written about Norway's thanks for the work after that Pål Refsdal was released from the Taliban in Afghanistan.
