Microsoft has announced that Khalid Elhasumi, country manager for Microsoft Libya, has been held in custody by authorities in Tripoli since the evening of Saturday, March 19th.
Microsoft says it hasn’t been able to find out the reasons for Elhasumi’s detention, but that they have been working with his family and various international organizations to ensure his safety and help get him released.
Ali Faramawy, Vice President Microsoft Middle East and Africa, comments:
“We are hopeful that the authorities will release Khalid soon. We are in close touch with his family and are actively working to provide support and ensure his safety.”
Elhasumi joined Microsoft in 2010 and manages the software company’s operations in the North African state of Libya, where it set up shop in 2006.
Our thoughts are with him and his family, and we sincerely hope he will soon be able to rejoin them.
Microsoft, founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, is a veteran software company, best known for its Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. Starting in 1980 Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM allowing Microsoft to sell its software package with the computers IBM manufactured. Microsoft is widely used by professionals worldwide and largely dominates the American corporate market. Additionally, the company has ventured into hardware with consumer products such as the Zune and...
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