A BBC television crew seized at a checkpoint in western Libya were held, beaten and given mock executions in the most extreme case of the Gaddafi regime’s harassment of international journalists. Goktay Koraltan, a BBC cameraman, was beaten by the Libyan authorities Photo: BBC By Richard Spencer, Tripoli 11:29PM GMT 09 Mar 2011 The team made public their fate at the hands of soldiers and militia after flying out of the country on Wednesday night. Feras Killani, a journalist of Palestinian-Syrian origin for the BBC Arabic service, was treated particularly brutally, kicked and punched and beaten with a pipe on a number of occasions before being held overnight in a cage in a militia compound….
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