France: guarantee press freedom

(Paris - 13 May 2019) 17 humanitarian and human rights NGOs denounced threats to press freedom today, after three French journalists were summoned by the French intelligence services for investigating the presence of French weapons in the conflict in Yemen. Geoffrey Livolsi and Mathias Destal of the French investigative media Disclose, as well as Benoît Collombat of Radio France’s investigation unit, are being heard on Tuesday and Wednesday by the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) as part of the preliminary investigation for "compromising national defence secrecy" opened by the Paris…

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