Guinea-Bissau: reporter beaten by policeman while covering Covid protest

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the severe beating that a radio reporter received from a police officer on Janauary 28 in Guinea-Bissau while covering a protest by school students against the government’s decision to close schools as part of its latest measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the information gathered by RSF, Souleymane Seidy, a reporter for privately-owned Bombolom FM, was interviewing participants in a peaceful march by several hundred stude

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