Gabon - Journalists harassed for violating taboo on ritual killings

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist Olivier Ndembi's interrogation by the General Directorate for Investigation about his research into the alleged involvement of Gabonese politicians in ritual killings. A reporter for the pro-government daily L'Union, Ndembi was questioned on 18 October. In a 14 April article on a subject usually regarded as off-limits in Gabon, Ndembi claimed that the identify of the instigators of many ritual killings was being concealed at a high government (...)

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