(MISA/IFEX) – The following is a joint MISA-MFWA alert: The National Communication Council (CNC), Guinea’s media regulatory body, has suspended the bimonthly newspaper “Le Populaire” for a story it carried in its 30 September 2003 edition (issue 24). Ibrahima Diallo, the paper’s managing editor, and Abdallah Balde, who wrote the story, have also been suspended. […]
(MISA/IFEX) – The following is a joint MISA-MFWA alert:
The National Communication Council (CNC), Guinea’s media regulatory body, has suspended the bimonthly newspaper “Le Populaire” for a story it carried in its 30 September 2003 edition (issue 24). Ibrahima Diallo, the paper’s managing editor, and Abdallah Balde, who wrote the story, have also been suspended.
According to MFWA-Guinea sources, the paper’s 30 September edition included a story entitled, “Amadou Kouyate cuts off his genitals because of a false rendezvous”. The article included a picture of a man showing what remained of his severed male organ.
The CNC described the picture, used as a banner headline, as an affront “to propriety and a violation of the rules of media ethics and professional code of conduct.”
