World Report 2008: Central African Republic

In addition to being subjected to a wave of arrests, physical attacks and threats, journalists in the Central African Republic face the prospect of legislation being introduced that would criminalise press offences again.

While in police detention, CAR journalist and director of “Le Quotidien de Bangui” newspaper, Landry Ulrich Nguema Ngokpélé’s hotel room is raided and laptops seized.

French journalists Florent Vergnes and his AFP colleague Charles Bouessel were kicked, punched and arrested while covering a banned opposition demonstration in Bangui.