Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the threat to journalists from the "Extraordinary Committee for the Defence of Democratic Achievements" (Comité extraordinaire de défense des acquis démocratiques- CEDAD), a new police organization led by Mahamat Nouradine Adam, a general in the former Seleka rebel coalition that ousted the previous government.
The editors of three Bangui-based dailies - Julien Bella of Centrafrique Matin, Maka Gbossokotto of Le Citoyen and Ulrich Landry Ngopkele of Quotidien de Bangui - have all been subjected to heavy-handed interrogation in the past month after publishing stories criticizing the CEDAD's activities. None of these interrogations was sanctioned by judicial procedure.
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