13 November 2007

Alert

Authorities release four journalists


Incident details

Moussa Guèye, Pape Moussa Doukar, Pape Moussa Gaye, El Malick Seck

journalist(s)

released

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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release on 9 November 2007 of all of the four journalists imprisoned in Senegal - Moussa Guèye, the editor of the privately-owned daily "L'Exclusif", Pape Moussa Doukar, one of his employees, Pape Moussa Gaye, the editor of the privately-owned daily "Le Courrier du Jour", and El Malick Seck, the editor of the news website http://www.Rewmi.com.

The interior ministry said they were freed with the aim of "defusing relations between the press and the government."



Source:

Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
 

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