Popular opposition newspaper closed for insulting Benin’s president

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns this week’s decision by Benin’s High Authority for Broadcasting and Communication (HAAC) to close one of the country’s most popular newspapers, the pro-opposition La Nouvelle Tribune, for insulting President Patrice Talon. The decision is disproportionate and lacks a legal basis, RSF said. “La Nouvelle Tribune is finished.

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