Libya journalist to be freed

A Brazilian journalist missing in Libya for a week has been jailed but is about to be released, a report says.

Libya’s ambassador to Brazil told Brazilian senators that reporter Andrei Netto is about to be freed, the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper said on its website.

There was no word, however, on the whereabouts of a correspondent for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who had been with Netto.

Libyan Ambassador Salem Omar Abdullah Al-Zubaidi said Netto was arrested because of mistakes he made in forms he filled out to enter Libya, according to senators quoted on the website.

President Dilma Rousseff has ordered the Brazilian Foreign Ministry to take the steps needed to ensure the journalist’s release, the president’s office said in a statement. It said that Netto was being held in a jail in the Libyan town of Sabratha.