BRASILIA, 10 Mar. The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff on Thursday ordered the Foreign Ministry of that country to take "urgent measures" to safeguard the lives and freedom of journalist Andrei Netto the newspaper 'O Estado de Sao Paulo' arrested in Libya. Rousseff "following closely the situation of Brazilian journalist Andrei Netto" and called on Foreign take "urgent measures to ensure their physical integrity and freedom", reports the Ministry of Social Communication of the Presidency.
Netto, 34, would be imprisoned in the city of Sabratha, 60 km from Tripoli, according to the information handled by the Executive. "Brazil's ambassador in Libya, George Ney de Souza Fernandes, is making every effort with the forces operating in the region to solve this case soon," reads the note.
The newspaper 'O Estado de Sao Paulo' had lost contact with the journalist on Sunday and had received all kinds of conflicting information. Netto had been missing since Sunday along the correspondent of the British newspaper 'The Guardian', Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, said Thursday the newspaper itself londindense. 
Netto, 34, would be imprisoned in the city of Sabratha, 60 km from Tripoli, according to the information handled by the Executive. "Brazil's ambassador in Libya, George Ney de Souza Fernandes, is making every effort with the forces operating in the region to solve this case soon," reads the note.
The newspaper 'O Estado de Sao Paulo' had lost contact with the journalist on Sunday and had received all kinds of conflicting information. Netto had been missing since Sunday along the correspondent of the British newspaper 'The Guardian', Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, said Thursday the newspaper itself londindense.
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