Newspaper reporter freed on bail after being held for 12 days

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

21 February 2008

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(RSF/IFEX) – Tunde Raheem, “The Sun” newspaper’s correspondent in the southwestern state of Ondo, was freed on bail on 19 February 2008 after being unjustly detained for 12 days, Reporters Without Borders has learned.

(RSF/IFEX) – Tunde Raheem, “The Sun” newspaper’s correspondent in the southwestern state of Ondo, was freed on bail on 19 February 2008 after being unjustly detained for 12 days, Reporters Without Borders has learned.

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