TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Four foreigners were imprisoned in Libya about mistrust involving disbursing publications concerning Christianity and proselytizing, a Libyan police spokesman explained on Saturday.
Police spokesman Hussein bin Hamid claimed your suspects had been from South Africa, Egypt along with South Korea, your decide one kept both Swedish plus U.S. nationality. The Swedish Foreign Ministry established in which a dual countrywide Swedish-American citizen ended up being in jail whilst journeying on a U.S. passport. The U.S. Embassy with Libya rejected comment.
Spreading Christianity is really a offense within the predominantly Muslim North African county.
The three were busted inside far eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday and so are less than research intended for stamping along with diffusing publications that proselytize Christianity. Police said many people located 45,000 textbooks into their possession plus which one more 25,000 have been completely distributed.
Bin Hamid said in which embassy officials possess frequented them. He won't express exactly where there're being held.
Last year, the International Committee on the Red Cross were required to hang up its pursuits with Benghazi after assailants released attacks on it is offices. The assist group ended up being falsely accused by way of a number of in Libya of distributing Bibles and also proselytizing.
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Associated Press correspondent Jan Olsen within Copenhagen, Denmark contributed to the present report.
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