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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Melinda Taylor spoke to her husband Geoff and daughter Yasmina. (Supplied)
An Australian lawyer detained in Libya has been allowed to phone her husband and two-year-old daughter.
Melinda Taylor and three colleagues from the International Criminal Court were arrested three weeks ago, accused of spying.
Ms Taylor has met an Australian official in Zintan and was allowed a telephone call to her husband Geoff and daughter Yasmina in The Hague.
Her mother, Janelle Taylor, says the phone call has lifted the family’s spirits.
“You’ve got no idea what a boost it has given all the family,” she said.
“We feel a little weight has lifted off our shoulders, but there’s an awful lot still there.
“She was perky and she seemed to be well looked after; she was a little bit bored but she was writing a little book for her daughter.
“Yasmina did a lot of the talking to her mother.”
Foreign Minister Bob Carr says Ms Taylor told her family that she was “in good spirits”.
Senator Carr says it was the first phone contact she had made since being detained on June 7.
“I thank the Libyan authorities, especially prime minister (Abdurrahim) El-Keib, for his assurances of consular access and for his efforts in making this visit and phone call possible,” he said.
Tripoli has accused Ms Taylor of carrying a pen camera and attempting to give Moamar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam a coded letter from his former right-hand man, Mohammed Ismail, who is on the run.
Senator Carr says the family contact is “encouraging” and indicates there is “now a line of authority between the National Transitional Council and the authorities in Zintan”.
“We find it encouraging but it stops short of being the news that we want, that her family wants, which is her release,” he said.
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foreign-affairs,
world-politics,
international-law,
libyan-arab-jamahiriya,
australia
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