Ghana: News Editor Charged for 'Publishing False Information'

press release

Ato Kwamena Dadzie, news editor of Joy FM, an Accra-based independent radio station, was on July 15, 2010 charged with a criminal offence for refusing to reveal the station's sources of information on a July 5 news item.

The station had carried report to the effect that an umbrella body of local contractors, Ghana Real Estates Developers Association (GREDA), had been issued death threats to withdraw a petition that it had sent to Ghana's parliament to oppose a controversial housing deal that the government of Ghana had entered into with a Korean company.

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