Central African Republic: Seleka Disbanded but Journalists Still Threatened

press release

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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