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July 23
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Guinea: Govt Closes Radio Station for Reporting on Ethnic Clashes [press release]
Zaly Liberté FM, a privately-owned radio station based in N'Zérékoré, a district about 1,000 kilometres south of Conakry, the capital, was ordered to... Read more »
July 10
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Guinea: Radio Station Director Charged for Libel
Managing Director of Planete FM, Mandian Sidibe, has been charged with libel and placed under judicial review by a Magistrates' Court in Conakry, the capital, for comments he made... Read more »
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Guinea: Radio Station Director Charged for Libel [press release]
Managing Director of Planete FM, Mandian Sidibe, has been charged with libel and placed under judicial review by a Magistrates' Court in Conakry, the capital, for comments he made... Read more »
June 21
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Guinea: Police Beat Up Journalist [press release]
Mamadou Sire Diallo, a reporter with the privately-owned satirical newspaper, Le Lynx, was badly beaten on June 19, 2013, by a group of policemen at the capital, Conakry. Diallo... Read more »
June 14
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West Africa: Guinea Alert - Attorney General Intervenes in Suspension of Planete FM [press release]
The Supreme Court presided over by its President, Mamadou Syllabic, on June 7, 2013 overturned a one month suspension imposed on privately-owned Planète FM and its managing... Read more »
May 31
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Guinea: Death Threat Against Journalist [press release]
Nouhou Baldé, deputy chief of the Guineenews website and an investigative journalist on May 20, 2013, received a life threatening message from an unknown assailant via his... Read more »
May 08
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Guinea: Demonstrators Violently Attacked, Four Dead [press release]
A large crowd of supporters belonging to the Guinean Opposition Coalition were on May 2, 2013 brutally attacked with live bullets and tear gas by police officers and gendarmes... Read more »
April 27
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Guinea: Police Attack Opposition Protestors, Arrest and Assault Leaders [press release]
Police officers drawn from the mobile squad of the Guinea National Police Force on April 18, 2013 fired tear gas and live bullets to disperse a large group of opposition... Read more »
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Guinea: Police Fire on Opposition Radio Station [press release]
Angry police officers from the Mobile Police Squad of the Guinea National Police Force in the night of April 18, 2013 besieged the premises of Planete FM, owned by Abubacarr Sylla,... Read more »
September 25, 2012
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Guinea: Nation Alert: Journalist Molested, Radio Station Vandalized [press release]
Oumar Tely Diallo, a trainee-reporter of the privately-owned satirical Lynx-Lance newspaper, was on September 21, 2012 physically assaulted by a group of angry pro-government... Read more »
September 24, 2012
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Guinea: Guinea Alert - Politician Rudely Disrupts Radio Programme [press release]
Elhadj Mohamed Conté, Prefect of Fria, a mining town about 160 kilometres to the North of Conakry, the capital, on September 18, 2012 stormed the studios of La Voix de Fria,... Read more »
September 06, 2012
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Guinea: Guinea Alert - Two Journalists Assaulted, Briefly Detained [press release]
Emmanuel Millimono and Miss Aissatou Diakité, reporters of privately-owned Soleil FM and Espace FM respectively, on August 31, 2012, were manhandled by police officers drawn... Read more »
August 29, 2012
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Guinea: Nation Alert - Authorities Shut Down Liberté FM [press release]
Zakaria Camara, acting prefect of N'zérékoré, a town about 1000 kilometres to the south of Conakry, the capital, on August 26, 2012 closed down Liberté... Read more »
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Guinea: Nation Alert: Ruling Party Militants Violently Assault Radio Journalists, Destroy Equipment. [press release]
Six journalists from privately-owned Espace FM and Renaissance FM on August 27, 2012, were severely beaten by a group of men believed to be supporters of the ruling People's Rally... Read more »
March 02, 2012
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Guinea: Journalist Violently Assaulted By Gendarmes [press release]
Ms. Kounkou Mara, a journalist with Le Lynx, a privately-owned newspaper belonging to the Conakry-based Le Lynx-La Lance media group, was on February 27, 2012, reportedly assaulted... Read more »
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