Chad - Government minister insists that no journalist is being targeted

Reporters without borders

“Neither Eric Topona nor any other journalist is being targeted by the government,” Chad's information and communication minister and government spokesman, Hassan Sylla Bakari, told Reporters Without Borders during an interview on 3 July in Paris. Reporters Without Borders, which requested the meeting, voiced its concern about media freedom in Chad following reports of threats to several journalists and to Le blog de Makaïla, an online publication by a Chadian citizen living in exile. Last (...)

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