RSF backs joint op-ed by 120 West African media and journalists calling for Beninese journalist’s release

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) and more than 120 media outlets and journalists in West Africa are publishing an unprecedented joint op-ed today calling for the release of Ignace Sossou, a Beninese journalist still being held after two and a half months in prison although the proof of his innocence has been available for several weeks. Arrested in Cotonou on 20 December after tweeting about the statements that Benin’s prosecutor-general made at a workshop organized by the French media development agency CFI, Sossou

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