Swiss want probe into Libya detention of citizens

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Swiss want probe into Libya detention of citizens
Sun Mar 6, 2011 10:14am GMT
Print | Single Page<-> Text <+> * Swiss call Libya detention businessmen "kidnapping"
* President wants guilty brought to justice

* Diplomatic row prompted by arrest of Gaddafi son


ZURICH, March 6 (Reuters) - Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey wants an investigation into Libya's detention of two Swiss businessmen who were caught up in a diplomatic row over the Swiss arrest of a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

"We should defend ourselves now against what was done to the two Swiss back then," Calmy-Rey told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper in an interview on Sunday.

Relations between Switzerland and Libya soured in 2008 when Geneva police arrested a son of Gaddafi on charges -- later dropped -- of abusing two domestic employees.

Libya withdrew millions of dollars from Swiss banks, halted oil exports to Switzerland and barred two Swiss businessmen working in Libya from leaving the country.

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