Photo: B.R.Q on Flickr. Some rights reserved The news agency confirmed today that UK correspondent Nick Carey was asked to leave the country two days before his visa was due to expire.
According to the Associated Press, Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said Carey had been ejected because Reuters had been "deliberately anti-Libyan government" in its reporting.
Carey, who arrived in the capital Tripoli two and a half weeks ago, was reportedly not expelled for any one particular story.
Reuters said today that it was sending another correspondent in his place, and that other Reuters journalists remained in Tripoli.
It came to light in May that Surrey-based freelance photographer Anton Hammerl had been killed on the outskirts of Tripoli when a group of journalists he was travelling with was attacked by Gaddafi's forces.
Hammerl was thought to have been captured and detained alongside four other journalists, but it was revealed upon their release that he had been fatally wounded during the initial attack.
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