Libyan government forces let at least 35 reporters go free.  They were hold up in the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.

It happened after Mahmud Nacua, the Libyan charge d’affairs at the Libyan embassy in London, urged the government forces to let the journalists go free.

CNN’s Mathew Chance said the government gunmen “…literally cast away their weapons and said they were sorry to us.”