The Spaniard Manu Brabo photographer, detained by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in a military prison in Tripoli, has been able to telephone his family to reassure them and inform them that you are "physically well" and that "there has been no abuse," according to Sunday explained the reporter's father, Manuel Varela.
"He called us yesterday, at nine in the evening and was a little worried about their isolation and because we know as we would," said Varela. "We explained that there was no problem, we try to encourage and charge the batteries," stated Varela noting that his son "told us he was physically well, which had not been abused and was in the company of other journalists detained in a prison Tripoli military.
" Brabo did not refer at any time to his release, which their families are "without knowing anything." The photographer was allowed to make the call "to keep track of who was held and it was fine, but could not provide any other information. "It was a conversation of a personal nature that opened in the hope of being able to be here someday," remarked the father of Brabo, while stressed that this call has raised the spirits of the family.
"It's a step, not the end result, but has filled us with joy to talk to him and know it's okay." His family has contacted "immediately" with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for informal conversation. In this regard, Manuel Varela has reiterated its "full confidence" in the work of the Spanish authorities for his release.
Brabo, born in Gijón in 1981, was captured in early April by Gaddafi's forces in eastern Libya with American reporters James Foley and Clare Morgan Gillis and fellow South African photographer Anton the Harmmel.
"He called us yesterday, at nine in the evening and was a little worried about their isolation and because we know as we would," said Varela. "We explained that there was no problem, we try to encourage and charge the batteries," stated Varela noting that his son "told us he was physically well, which had not been abused and was in the company of other journalists detained in a prison Tripoli military.
" Brabo did not refer at any time to his release, which their families are "without knowing anything." The photographer was allowed to make the call "to keep track of who was held and it was fine, but could not provide any other information. "It was a conversation of a personal nature that opened in the hope of being able to be here someday," remarked the father of Brabo, while stressed that this call has raised the spirits of the family.
"It's a step, not the end result, but has filled us with joy to talk to him and know it's okay." His family has contacted "immediately" with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for informal conversation. In this regard, Manuel Varela has reiterated its "full confidence" in the work of the Spanish authorities for his release.
Brabo, born in Gijón in 1981, was captured in early April by Gaddafi's forces in eastern Libya with American reporters James Foley and Clare Morgan Gillis and fellow South African photographer Anton the Harmmel.
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