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Côte d’Ivoire – Why has newspaper publisher been held for nearly nine months?
Reporters Without Borders condemns newspaper publisher Ousmane Sy Savané’s prolonged detention in Abidjan’s main prison, usually referred to by the acronym of Maca. Savané is CEO of Cyclone, a company that publishes the opposition newspapers Le Temps and Lg Infos and the arts and culture magazine Prestige. “How is it possible that, nearly nine months after the start of his detention in the Maca, Savané has still not been brought before an investigating judge for questioning on the substance of (…)
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Côte d’Ivoire – Why is police intelligence holding opposition media executive?
Reporters Without Borders calls on the interior ministry to immediately account for media executive Ousmane Sy Savané’s arrest yesterday by the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DST), a police intelligence agency. Savané is director general of Cyclone, a company that publishes the opposition dailies Le Temps and LG Info. “If the DST, an interior ministry offshoot, is holding Savané then it should acknowledge this and should publicly say what he is accused of. Was he arrested for a (…)
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Côte d’Ivoire – Open letter to Ouattara asking him to intercede on behalf of imprisoned journalist
Reporters Without Borders wrote to President Alassane Ouattara today asking him to help obtain the provisional release of Hermann Aboa, a journalist with state-owned Radio-Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) who has been detained since 21 July. The organization is worried about the conditions in which Aboa has been held since his transfer to Abidjan’s main prison. The text of the letter follows: President Alassane Ouattara Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Paris, 6 September 2011 Dear President Ouattara, (…)
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Côte d’Ivoire – State broadcaster back on the air, but presenter still detained
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for the release of Hermann Aboa, a programme host on the leading state-owned Radio-Télévision Ivoirienne channel, RTI 1, who is still in pre-trial detention in the Agban gendarmerie barracks in the Abidjan neighbourhood of Adjamé-Williamsville. A former host of the discussion programme “Reasons of State” on La Première (now renamed RTI 1), Aboa is facing a possible life sentence on various charges that were brought against him on 21 July. “Aboa (…)
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Côte d’Ivoire – Media freedom set back 20 years
Reporters Without Borders is deeply disturbed by a clampdown on the media by Laurent Gbagbo’s government. The leadership of the National Press Council (CNP), which regulates the print media, has just been replaced by Gbagbo’s supporters. The UN radio station, Onuci FM, has had its permit withdrawn. And many journalists are still exposed to the threat of violence. “Laurent Gbagbo’s government has just taken over the CNP, a regulatory body known for being serious and impartial,” Reporters (…)
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Côte d’Ivoire – Two reporters for northern TV station arrested as “rebels” on arrival in Abidjan
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of two journalists employed by Télévision Notre Patrie (TVNP) – a pirate TV station based in the northern city of Bouaké that supports the former rebel New Force – who were arrested on their arrival in Abidjan on 28 January. The two journalists – Sanogo Aboubakar, aka Abou Sanogo, and Kangbé Yayoro Charles Lopez, aka Gnahoré Charly – had wanted to do a series of reports at the Golf Hotel, where presidential contender Alassane Ouattara is (…)
