By RFIPalled on 25-09-2019Modified on 25-09-2019 at 13:06
In Chad, journalist Inoua Martin Doulguet was convicted of "criminal conspiracy" after publishing an article reporting charges of sexual assault against a former minister.
In Chad, opinion is outraged after the conviction of a Chadian journalist to three years in prison. Inoua Martin Doulguet, director of Salam Info magazine, was convicted of "criminal conspiracy" after publishing an article reporting sexual assault charges against a former minister.
The Ndjamena High Court also sentenced him to pay 15,000 euros in damages to the complainant and 3,000 euros in fines. This sentence is extremely severe and disproportionate, according to Arnaud Froger of the press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders.
" The journalist was remanded for several weeks for defamation," he says. He was later sentenced to an extremely heavy sentence. Everything was done during the trial to ensure that this journalist was sentenced to an extremely heavy sentence, since the charges were changed . "
" He was finally tried as a cybercriminal while the news he reported on his Facebook page had a profoundly journalistic vocation, continues Arnaud Froger. It appears, obviously, that we tried to get rid of a director of publication which, it seems, had become embarrassing with some, in particular because it reported corruption facts among the high spheres Chadian authorities, and that its publication has, on several occasions, been the subject of sanctions. The severity of the sentence attests to the fact that we wanted to silence him . "
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