(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the president of the National Communications Council (Conseil National de la Communication, CNC), Emile Tompapa, RSF urged the CNC to annul its decision to invalidate the accreditation of three Guinean journalists for a two-month period. The organisation recalled that Guinea has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the president of the National Communications Council (Conseil National de la Communication, CNC), Emile Tompapa, RSF urged the CNC to annul its decision to invalidate the accreditation of three Guinean journalists for a two-month period. The organisation recalled that Guinea has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 19 of which guarantees the “freedom to seek, receive and impart information…regardless of frontiers.”
According to information collected by RSF, three Guinean journalists, Ben Daouda Sylla, a correspondent of Africa N°1 radio, Mouctar Bah, a correspondent of Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Radio France Internationale, and Amadou Diallo of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), had their accreditation taken away for a two-month period (from 1 August to 30 September 2000) by the CNC. The regulating body accuses them of “distributing information of a tendentious and malicious nature on the socio-political situation in the Republic of Guinea, with the unconfessed intention of tarnishing its image of peace and stability”. The CNC also accuses them of not hesitating “to drag their country through the mud to make some money, under the pretext of press freedom”.
