A group of Libyan opposition activists have uploaded onto the internet a newsletter they say was published in Zintan, 75 miles south of Tripoli.
The newsletter is one of several independent media sources to emerge in Libyan cities freed from Colonel Gaddafi's control.
One of the newsletter's publishers, Muhammad al-Sid, told BBC Monitoring over the telephone that it was being distributed in Zintan's streets.
The three-page newsletter, called Intifada (left), or uprising, has been issued on a daily basis since Monday 28 February.
But unlike the Libya Daily, which is published in Benghazi, Intifada appears to be created by Libyan citizen journalists.
Scans of its pages show a simple design using a mixture of text, images and superimposed headlines. The second issue can be viewed on Facebook or on document-sharing website Scribd.
A report on the first page recounted how a government attempt to besiege Zintan on 28 February had failed:
"Over 50 armoured personnel vehicles ... and around 250 soldiers were stationed at the northern side of Zintan. An exchange of fire with the courageous youths took place for an hour and-a-half. They [Al-Gaddafi's forces] were expelled and fled back to Tripoli."
The newsletter explains the objectives of the "17 February intifada". One is the "establishment of a democratic state, representing all Libyans". Another is "to prevent any foreign intervention in Libyan affairs". The paper also thanks the international community for positions supporting the Libyan people.
Updates on the humanitarian situation in Zintan are also included in the three-page publication.
Upon "orders from the corrupt regime", it said, the Libyan state oil company had blocked fuel supplies from reaching Zintan. The bulletin added that Zintan was under food and electricity shortages after "three days of uprising".
Other reports covered a visit to Zintan by a French TV crew and a condemnation of a reported offer of money from Gaddafi to end the revolt.
Intifada did not have any anti-Gaddafi cartoons, but images of the country's anti-Italian revolutionary leader Umar al-Mukhtar and the old Libyan flag were included.
While Intifada appears to be one of the first anti-Gaddafi publications to come from western Libya, in Benghazi a group of activists have been editing the website of a newspaper previously owned by the son of the Libyan leader, Sayf al-Islam, according to a report by the France 24 television website on 28 February. Quryna's web address leads to an anti-Gaddafi news website called Yosberides.
And Libyan journalist Umar al-Quday said in an interview with French Radio Monte Carlo on 1 March that opposition activists were now running previously state-run radio stations, including several in western Libyan cities.
Abdallah al-Salmi is Middle East Analyst for BBC Monitoring.
