US EditionNiger: the Editor of the Newspaper "the Courier" Sent to Prison After a Complaint From the Prime Minister
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At the end of August, "The Courier" quoted the name of Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine in an article on a case of "cigarette fraud" involving several personalities.
Ali Sumana spent a first night in prison in Niger. The editor of the weekly Le Courrier was presented to a judge on Monday 8 September, after 48 hours of police custody. Arrested after a complaint by Prime Minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, the journalist was charged with defamation.
The editor of the weekly Courier was charged on 8 September with "defamation" and "infringement of human dignity", following a complaint by Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine.
Niger has been ruled by a military regime for two years, whose repression of the disputants is regularly denounced by several international NGOs. "Ali Soumana was accused today by a judge for "disfamation and disclosure of information that might disturb the public order", said the French news agency AFP, who preferred to keep the newspaper anonymous. Soumana is also accused of "attacked to human dignity", adding the same source, which also indic…
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