• West Africa: Burkina Faso Alert - Court Sentences Two Journalists to 12 Months Imprisonment

    Media Foundation for West Africa (Accra), 2 November 2012

    A Magistrates' Court in Ouagadougou, the capital, on October 29, 2012 sentenced Roland Ouédraogo and Issa Lohé Konaté, both editors of privately-owned L'Ouragan newspaper to 12 months in prison on charges of defaming Placide Nikieme, the State Prosecutor.

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