DJIBOUTI

JANUARY 14, 2005
Posted: February 16, 2005

Radio France Internationale
CENSORED

Officials cut radio France Internationale's (RFI) FM broadcasts in the country.

According to RFI and French media reports, Djiboutian authorities silenced the broadcaster because of its report on an ongoing French legal inquiry into the 1995 death in Djibouti of Bernard Borrel, a French judge. RFI reported on January 12 that a French court had summoned the head of the Djiboutian secret services, Hassan Saïd, as a witness in the inquiry. An earlier French inquiry conducted in Djibouti had concluded that Borrel committed suicide.