Mauritius - Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam launches blistering attack on independent media

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the extremely aggressive comments about the independent media that Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam made at a meeting of the ruling Alliance of the Future on 1 May, when he accused the daily L'Express and the weekly Week-End of just defending the interests of opposition leader Paul Bérenger of the Mauritian Militant Movement. Ramgoolam often uses harsh language but he went too far in a personal attack on L'Express editor Raj Meetarbhan, describing him as not (...)

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