Djibouti - Former journalist and government opponent back in Gabode prison

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders strenuously objects to former journalist and opposition politician Daher Ahmed Farah's detention for the past four days. Farah was taken into custody when he responded to a summons to report to gendarmerie headquarters on 23 April in the afternoon and was transferred to the capital's Gabode prison the next morning. He is being held under a Djibouti supreme court decision of 19 September 2004, finding him guilty, as editor and publisher of the newspaper Le Renouveau (...)

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