Burkina Faso - Letter to media regulatory body about newspaper's one-week suspension

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders wrote today to Béatrice Damiba, the head of the Higher Council for Communication (CSC), voicing disappointment about this media regulatory agency's decision to suspend the daily Le Quotidien during the week of 17 to 23 December. “The reason given by the CSC was Le Quotidien's ‘repeated breaches of journalistic ethics and the right to control one's image,' but we think the suspension was inappropriate and that its sole aim was to punish the newspaper's editorial (...)

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