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Home > Guniea: Presidential guards raid Conakry radio station, arrest presenter and technician

Contributor [1]
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 02:00
Categories: 
Media & freedom of expression [2]
Issue Number: 
291 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Reporters Without Borders have condemned the closure of privately-owned radio FM Liberté by members of the presidential guard, who ransacked the Conakry-based station, roughed up employees and arrested a journalist and a technician. A unit of presidential guard “Red Berets” burst into the studios of FM Liberté in the Conakry district of Kaloum at 11:40 a.m.on Tuesday while the “Matinée Plurielle” programme was being broadcast.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/media/39739 [5]
Country: 
Guinea [6]

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