Gabon

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Gabonese authorities to free a journalist who was jailed on Tuesday for failing to pay exorbitant damages stemming from a 2004 civil libel suit. Jean-Yves Ntoutoume, editor of the private bimonthly Le Temps, was imprisoned over his newspaper's failure to pay 10 million CFA francs (US $20,000) in damages to Albert Méyé, a former treasurer of...

Authorities have created a cimlate of fear among the Gabonese media by arresting Albert Yangari, the well-known editor of the national daily L’Union, for several hours on September 25, Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. “This incident was clearly motivated by the government’s desire to intimidate journalists who dare to investigate sensitive subjects,” RSF said. “ L’Union has displayed...