Tripoli, 10 February 2014:
The Editor-in-Chief of Tarablus Newspaper was abducted this evening outside a cafe close to Tripoli’s Mahari Radisson Blu . . .[restrict]Hotel.
Younes Ali Younes, who is also a member of the editorial staff at Libyan news agency LANA, was grabbed outside the cafe at around 8.30 pm, a media source confirmed to the Libya Herald.
A fellow newspaper employee who was with Younes when he was seized said he was taken by men dressed in military uniforms driving a white vehicle. The witness said he was threatened and prevented from trying to intervene, according to LANA.
The incident was reported to Tripoli Security Directorate, who said that this was the third reported kidnapping in the capital this week. By 10 pm this evening, a number of additional checkpoints had been set up across the city, including one near the Waddan Hotel. [/restrict]
