Libya: IFJ Shocked By the Slaughter of Six Libyan Journalists and Media Workers

press release

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed its shock and dismay at the discovery of the bodies of five employees of the Libyan broadcaster, Al Barka TV.

The team had been kidnapped last August at a fake ISIS-Libya check-point while returning from filming the opening session of the newly elected Libyan parliament. Their bodies were found this morning, their throats recently slit, outside the city of Bayda.

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