Côte d’Ivoire - Newspaper editor arrested for publishing “confidential information”

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Charles Sanga, the managing editor of the daily Le Patriote, who was arrested by the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DST), an intelligence agency, last night in Abidjan for allegedly “publishing confidential information.” In an exclusive in yesterday's Le Patriote, journalist Jean-Claude Coulibaly reported that the Constitutional Council had decided to annul the 11 December parliamentary elections in 11 districts where the (...)

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