Suspected foreign missionaries arrested in Libya's second city

Four suspected Christian foreign missionaries have been arrested in Libya's second city of Benghazi [2], according to country officials. 

The arrests were made following information that the four foreign nationals were printing and distributing thousands of books in an attempt to convert people locally [3].

"We are still holding interrogations and will hand them over to the Libyan intelligence authorities in a couple of days," Hussein bin Hamid, spokesman for Libya's Preventative Security told Reuters.

Libya is a majority Sunni Muslim country [4] and attempts at conversions are forbidden. The four arrested - an Egyptian, a South African, a South Korean and a Swede - are being held in detention although the spokesman added that their respective diplomats had been allowed to visit them. 

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