Guinea - Regulator acts outside law by closing radio station for one month

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders urges the National Communication Council (CNC), Guinea's media regulator, to immediately rescind the outrageous order it issued on 30 May suspending Radio Planète FM and one of its programme hosts, Mandian Sidibé, for a month. “No current legislation allows the CNC to issue this order,” Reporters Without Borders said. “It is based on a 1991 press law that was rendered null and void by Organic Laws 002 and 003, which Gen. Sékouba Konaté promulgated on 22 June 2010, during (...)

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