Djibouti - Repeated arrests used to hound independent journalists

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by a wave of arbitrary arrests of journalists working for La Voix de Djibouti, an independent news website, and the increasingly violent methods that the police are using with journalists. Four journalists have been arrested in the past 10 days, some of them have been mistreated, and two of them are still being held in a completely illegal manner. “The way this systematic harassment is conducted would be absurd except that journalists are being deprived (...)

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