US EditionGuinea-Bissau Shuts Down Two Portuguese Media Outlets, Expels Their Journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
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Guinea-Bissau shuts down two Portuguese media outlets, expels their journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 19, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Guinea-Bissau to rescind an August 15, 2025, order effectively suspending the work of the Portuguese state-owned news outlets LUSA and RTP and expelling Portuguese journalists working with them. Authorities ordered the immediate and indefinite closure of the LUSA and RTP offices and the discontinuation of local broadcasts of RTP, and said that Portuguese journ…
The Portuguese MNE believes that the normality of bilateral relations between Portugal and Guinea-Bissau can be re-established after a decision to expel the Portuguese social communication from that country.
The position was taken and is part of the resolutions of the regular meeting of the PAIGC Political Office, which took place on Saturday, in Bissau, to analyse the socio-political situation of the African country. The party which led the PAI-Terra Ranka coalition away from the Government in December 2023 by the President of the Republic, Umaro Sissco Embaló, approved at this meeting a movement of solidarity with the RDP, RTP and Lusa Agency. The…
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