British journalists were held in Libya after captors mistook Welsh for Hebrew

They said five days after they had been taken, the militia had gone to their
hotel to find footage and began looking through equipment and the archive
material.

“My father, who’s a nurse, had given me some bandages in case we got into
trouble. Some had Welsh written on and they thought this was Hebrew and we
were Israeli spies,” he said.

International rights campaigners including Amnesty International and Reporters
Without Borders have said the two Britons were detained illegally, and had
called on the militia to either release them immediately or transfer them to
the custody of the official Libyan authorities.

The fact they have been held by a militia – which has no official status – is
emblematic of the instability and weak central government control in Libya
since last year’s rebellion ended Gaddafi’s rule with help from Nato air
strikes.

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