Djibouti Arrests Reporter On World Press Freedom Day

press release

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Charmarke Saïd Darar, a correspondent for the only Djiboutian-run media outlet providing his country with freely and independently reported news coverage, who was arrested on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day.

While the rest of the world celebrated freedom of the press and while neighbouring Somalia's president announced that press offences will be decriminalized there, the government headed by President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh continued to persecute independent reporting in Djibouti. A reporter for La Voix de Djibouti (LVD), a web TV and radio station broadcasting to Djibouti from Belgium, Charmarke Saïd Darar was arrested at 10:45 p.m. on 3 May while covering a fire in a low-income district of the capital, Djibouti City.

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