Al Jazeera journalist Lotfi al Messoudi crosses border into Tunisia

One of four detained Al Jazeera journalists, Lotfi al Massoudi, crossed the border into Tunisia. However, three others are still being held by Libyan authorities. On March 31, Libyan authorities re-arrested the four Al Jazeera journalists just hours after they were released. They had been detained earlier by Libyan authorities near Zintan, in the northwest of the country, and then imprisoned in Tripoli for three weeks. Their latest incarceration came after al Massoudi told Tunisian radio station Jawhara FM in a telephone interview that they had been released and that they had been treated well while detained. Al Massoudi, a Tunisian national, had been re-taken on Thursday along with Ahmad val ould Eddin, a Mauritanian national, Ammar al Hamdan, a Norwegian national of Palestinian descent, and Kamel al Tallou, a British citizen. During their brief freedom, the journalists met with their respective ambassadors in Tripoli to discuss their situation and their planned departure for Tunisia the following day. Shots of the Al Jazeera reporter Lotfi Messoudi at Tunisia-Libya border, Messoudi received by colleagues and relatives at the border, and Messoudi talking to an Al Jazeera reporter.