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Libya frees all jailed Muslim Brotherhood members
Libya released all 84 jailed members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement who had been held in the country since the late 1990s, official sources said. "All the 84 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were released today ... amid celebrations in front of the prison in Tripoli in the presence of their families," an official source said. "Fivty-five of them have returned home to Benghazi," Libya's second city in the east of the country, added the source, who asked not to be named.

Libya arrested at the end of the 1990s 152 members of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2002 two were sentenced to death, 73 to life in prison and 66 were acquitted. The others were handed 10 year jail sentences. The condemned, mainly students and academics, were accused of supporting or belonging to Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya al-Libiya, an Islamist group created in 1979, whose beliefs reflect those of Egypt's banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood.
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Posted by: Seafarious 2006-03-02
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