Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
20 December 2007
press release
Reporters Without Borders called today for the release of two French TV journalists, reporter Thomas Dandois and cameraman Pierre Creisson, who were arrested on 17 December in Niamey. They work for Camicas Productions and were on assignment in Niger for the Franco-German TV station Arte.
They and their Nigerien driver were arrested by gendarmes on a road into the capital in the late afternoon of 17 December. The Nigerien owner of their car was also arrested in the southern city of Maradi.
The authorities accuse them of violating a ban on travel to the north of Niger, which is under a state of emergency, in order to do a report on the Tuareg rebels of the Nigerien Movement for Justice (MNJ). They had a visa and permission to do a report on bird flu.
They are being held at the Niamey gendarmerie officers club pending a hearing before a judge, who could decide to charge them.
Reporters Without Borders defends imprisoned journalists and press freedom throughout the world. It has nine national sections (Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland). It has representatives in Bangkok, London, New York, Tokyo and Washington. And it has more than 120 correspondents worldwide.
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