Judicial measure “unacceptable” AND “arbitrary”. Correspondents for French daily newspapers World AND Release Burkina Faso was expelled on Saturday, April 1, in the evening. “Our correspondent in Burkina Faso, Sophie Douce, has just been expelled from the country (…) at the same time as her colleague from Liberation, Agnès Faivre”announcement World on his website. “The sanction has been lifted, and with it the confirmation that freedom of the press in Burkina Faso is under serious threat”written from my side Releasestating that two journalists had arrived “Sunday Morning in Paris”.
On Monday, March 27, Burkina Faso, led by the authorities after two coups in 2022 and facing an increase in deadly jihadist attacks, interrupted the broadcast of the French news channel France 24 on its territory. In early December 2022, the ruling junta had already suspended the RFI broadcast of the same group France Médias Monde. On Friday, March 31, two journalists from World and from Release were called to the National Security Service in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where they were ordered to leave the country within 24 hours.
“Absolutely unjustified evictions”
World “denounces in the strongest terms this arbitrary decision” which forced the two journalists to leave Ouagadougou within 24 hours. “Sophie Douce, like her colleague, does independent journalism for Le Monde Afrique without being subjected to any pressure.” Director of the reference newspaper Jérôme Fenoglio, “asks the local authorities to reverse these decisions as soon as possible and immediately restore the conditions for independent information in the country.”
According to Release, “Agnes Faivre and Sophie Doucs are conscientious journalists who have worked legally in Burkina Faso with valid visas and accreditations issued by the government of Burkina Faso.”. “We strongly protest against these absolutely unjustified expulsions and the ban on the independent work of our journalists.“, can be read in the editorial office. The diary clarifies “that publication March 27 release investigation about the circumstances under which the video of children and teenagers being executed in military barracks by at least one soldier was filmed, clearly caused great displeasure of the junta in power in Burkina Faso”.
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“The government strongly condemns these manipulations, disguised as journalism, in order to defame the image of a country of honest people”Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo, spokesman for the government of Burkina Faso, wrote after the publication of this investigation, assuring that the Burkina Faso army was acting “in strict accordance with international humanitarian law”.
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