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RSF protests against journalists’ detention

    NAIROBI

    The international media watchdog Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) protested on Thursday against the detention of two journalists in a letter addressed to Cote d’Ivoire’s minister responsible for security, General Lassana Palenfo.

    RSF asked the minister to “do everything for the two journalists to be released immediately”. Its secretary-general, Robert Menard, said “this arrest marks a new phase in the degradation of the press freedom situation in Cote d’Ivoire”.

    RSF said the two journalists, Yoro Koné and Khristian Kara, publisher and reporter of the private newspaper ‘Le Liberal’ have been held since 2 August at the gendarmerie in Abidjan. They have reportedly been accused of defaming the head of state, General Robert Guei, in a report in Wednesday’s edition of ‘Le Liberal’.

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