Journalist escapes Libyan prison after months in captivity

Journalist escapes Libyan prison after months in captivity

New York, August 24, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the news that U.S. journalist Matthew VanDyke escaped with several inmates from Abu Salim prison in Tripoli today. VanDyke's mother told CPJ that he called her with the news of his escape and that he is safe and in good spirits. He also told his mother that he had been kept in solitary confinement for much of his imprisonment. It was not clear whether the prison was now controlled by rebels.

Missing journalist from Baltimore emerges from Tripoli prison

Missing journalist from Baltimore emerges from Tripoli prison
 Tara Bahrampour, Published: August 24

Matthew VanDyke, a freelance journalist from Baltimore who had been missing in Libya since March, was released from Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim prison on Wednesday, according to his mother, whom he talked to on a borrowed Libyan cellphone.