Ivory Coast: Nouveau Courrier journalists to be released
28 Jul 2010Three journalists who were arrested after they published an official government document on corruption were due to be released yesterday. The editor, managing editor and publisher of the Nouveau Courrier d’Abidjan were acquitted of charges relating to theft of official documents but charged with a lesser offence and fined five million CFA francs (7,500 euros).
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