Four foreign journalists held by the Libyan government for six weeks have been released and moved to a Tripoli hotel.
Clare Morgana Gillis, an American, said she and her colleagues - American James Foley, Spaniard Manuel Varela and Briton Nigel Chandler - were in good health.
The four appeared at the Rixos Hotel, which is housing foreign journalists assigned to Tripoli, a day after the Libyan government said it had given them a one-year suspended sentence on charges of illegally entering the country.
Ms Gillis, a freelance journalist who wrote for The Atlantic and USA Today; Mr Foley, who wrote for the Boston-based news agency GlobalPost, and Mr Varela, a photographer who works under the name Manu Brabo, were detained on April 5 near the town of Brega.
Mr Chandler, a British freelance journalist, was detained separately.
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim invited the four to stay in Libya but said they would be escorted to the Tunisian border to leave the country if they wished.
There was no word on the fate of photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who has South African and Austrian citizenship and went missing in Libya about the time the others were detained.
Ms Gillis said she had not seen him.
