Chad - Journalist arrested after being summoned to law courts

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is very worried by today's arrest of Eric Topona, the secretary-general of the Union of Chadian Journalists (UJT) and former journalist for Chad's national radio and TV broadcaster, and the charge of “endangering constitutional order” that has been brought against him. After reporting to N'Djamena's law courts at 8 a.m. today in response to a summons from an investigating judge, he was detained under a warrant and is now at a detention centre in Amsinene, a suburb of (...)

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