Dr. Siddiq Khalfallah Ben Della, deputy head of al-Khadra Hospital in Tripoli, the country’s capital, was reportedly kidnapped Dec. 1 by four armed men in uniform.
Government security forces freed the surgeon and arrested his kidnappers four days later.
The United Nations Mission in Libya called for a “full and independent inquiry” into the incident and all other abductions led by Libyan armed groups, the news outlet reported.
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