Niger: IFJ Calls for Release of Newspaper Editor and Owner Sentenced to Jail in Niger

International Federation of Journalists (Brussels)

8 February 2008

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the government of Niger to release L'enquêteur editor Ibrahim Souley and owner Soumana Maïga, who were sentenced to a month in jail after the Minister of Economy and Finance filed a libel complaint against the newspaper.