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Unfair sentence

Suspended prison sentence and fine against journalists on L’Union

Published on 10 June 2010Read

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Criticism forbidden!

New temporary ban on newspaper Ezombolo

Published on 27 May 2010Read

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Letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy on eve of talks with President Ali Bongo

Reporters Without Borders wrote to President Nicolas Sarkozy on 19 November 2009 on the eve of his meeting in Paris with his visiting Gabonese (...)

Published on 20 November 2009 Read

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Communications council punishes nine media

Reporters Without Borders today condemned what it called Gabon’s “persistently repressive impulses” after the National Communications Council (CNC) (...)

Published on 13 November 2009 Read

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Fear in Libreville after leading daily’s editor is arrested and questioned for several hours

Reporters Without Borders deplores the climate of fear that the authorities have created among the Gabonese media by arresting Albert Yangari, (...)

Published on 25 September 2009 Read

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Media targeted in political violence and tension following disputed election results

Reporters Without Borders is extremely worried about the impact on the media of a wave of violence and unrest in Gabon that began when the (...)

Published on 3 September 2009 Read

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Media coverage of presidential election likely to be heavily restricted

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the array of restrictions that the Gabonese authorities have imposed on journalists in the run-up to (...)

Published on 28 August 2009 Read

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Government imposes news blackout on President Bongo’s health

Reporters Without Borders wrote yesterday to communication minister Laure Olga Gondjout and National Communication Council chairman Emmanuel Ondo (...)

Published on 27 May 2009 Read

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Two journalists released provisionally, still face trial on “propaganda” charges

Reporters Without Borders notes that Gaston Asseko, the technical director of radio Sainte-Marie, and the three leading civil society members (...)

Published on 13 January 2009 Read

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Journalist brutally beaten by president’s men leaves hospital

Journalist Habib Papy Boudendji, known as Habib Bilalou, of the satirical weekly Le Nganga, left hospital on 10 December 2008 after treatment for (...)

Published on 12 December 2008 Read