By Houda Mzioudet
Tripoli, 10 July 2013:
The . . .[restrict]dogged protests of a group of friends and neighbours has secured the release of three photographers, kidnapped by militiamen during last Wednesday’s attack on the Ministry of the Interior.
The friends, led by civil society activist Ali Aboo, originally took their protest to Martyr’s Square during Sunday’s rally demanding all militias disband and get out of Tripoli.
In their little corner of the square Aboo and his colleagues held up a placards naming Abdurraouf Al Manai, Abdul Monem Al Jedaimi and Taher Al Doghri as having been abducted when they went to cover the assault by the QaaQaa Brigade on the Interior Ministry.
The trio were released around 8 pm yesterday. Manai told the Libya Herald : “Shortly before our release, Ali Muhairig, the minister of electricity and renewable energy visited us.”
Manai declined to say which armed group had abducted him and his colleagues. A writer and civil rights activist, on the day that he was abducted he had published his first book “Discover Libya”.
Aboo explained that two other activists Ahmed Abu Saada and Muhamad Al Ghariyani, who had been following in a second car, were also detained but released within 48 hours.
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