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US journalist held in Libya says she was beaten

Updated: 2011-05-25 09:15

(Agencies)

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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut  - An American journalist detained in Libya for six weeks says she was fired upon and beaten when she was captured but later treated better as she was moved from prison to a luxurious hotel.

Clare Morgana Gillis was one of four foreign journalists released last week. She said Tuesday that she's happy to be home in New Haven, Connecticut, but upset that a photographer she was with when she was captured was killed.

Gillis says she met a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi who asked her if the rebels were crazy. The 34-year-old says she was interrogated with blindfolds on in the wee hours of the morning and accused of being a spy.

Gillis says she's not that religious but prayed a lot.

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