Reporters in Libya Freed

BOSTON - Libyan authorities today released four foreign journalists who had been held for more than six weeks to a hotel in Tripoli.

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi first captured GlobalPost correspondent James Foley, Clare Morgana Gillis, who has written for The Atlantic and USA Today, and Manuel Varela, a Spanish photographer who works under the name Manu Brabo, on April 5.

The fourth reporter appears to be Nigel Chandler, a British freelance journalist. It is unclear when, and under what circumstances, authorities first detained him.

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