Niger has freed an editor-in-chief arrested after his TV news channel aired a programme critical of the ruling junta, the broadcaster told AFP on Monday.
Seyni Amadou, editor-in-chief of private broadcaster Canal 3 TV, was arrested on Saturday, in the latest crackdown on the press since the military took power in a 2023 coup.
His detention came a day after Niger’s communications minister, Sidi Raliou Mohamed, suspended the channel for a month following Canal 3’s broadcast of a story rating the performance of various members of government.
Mohamed also suspended Amadou’s press card for three months.
“Seyni Amadou has just been freed,” said Canal 3 TV’s director general Ismael Abdoulaye.
Abdoulaye had previously told AFP that the communications minister had lifted the channel and Amadou’s reporting suspensions.
Having earlier on Monday called for Amadou’s…
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