Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
19 September 2007
press release
Intelligence agents working for the president are harassing Maxwell Naringue Loalngar, the editor of the privately-owned weekly Le Temps. In a phone interview, Loalngar told Reporters Without Borders he was followed by unidentified men using vehicles with presidential guard plates after he met with Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim, a former rebel leader who is now defence minister.
The same men later went to his home and asked his wife where he was. After this, Loalngar went into hiding for several days. He believes the harassment was prompted by his meeting with Abdelkerim, and the current tension between Abdelkerim and the president.
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