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Radio station in Guinea raided, attacked

September 9, 2013 12:05 PM EDT

A radio station in the eastern Guinean city of Kankan was raided and attacked twice in three days in mid-August, according to news reports. At least three journalists reported being briefly detained.

Guinean journalist assaulted while covering attack

July 31, 2013 3:50 PM EDT

A group of persons with disabilities attacked Alhasane Bah, a journalist with the media group L’independent-Le Democrate, on July 4, 2013, as he attempted to photograph the group attacking another person with disabilities, according to news reports. The attack occurred near the Faycal Mosque in Donka district.

Guinean journalists report being attacked in Conakry

June 27, 2013 3:49 PM EDT

At least four journalists were attacked in separate episodes on June 19, 2013, amid clashes in the Guinean capital, Conakry, between opposition militants and supporters of President Alpha Condé, according to CPJ interviews and news reports. The clashes erupted between opposition groups, mostly of Peul ethnicity, and the Guinean ruling party, mostly of Malinke ethnicity,…

Violence in Guinea leads to attacks on journalists, outlets

March 20, 2013 2:58 PM EDT

Several journalists and news outlets covering political unrest in the capital, Conakry, were attacked in late February and March 2013, according to local journalists and news reports.

Guinean radio talk shows censored

December 21, 2012 1:43 PM EST

New York, December 21, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a series of censorship measures imposed this month by media regulators in Guinea against three popular current affairs talk shows stemming from news commentary critical of officials.

In Guinea, two journalists detained by police

September 14, 2012 3:55 PM EDT

Police in Conakry, the capital, briefly detained two journalists on August 31, 2012, while they were interviewing protesters demonstrating against a massacre of villagers by security forces on August 3, 2012.

A radio station station was closed down to prevent coverage of Monday's protests, shown here. (AFP/Cellou Binani)

Guinean government censors private radio station

August 30, 2012 1:21 PM EDT

Lagos, Nigeria, August 30, 2012–Authorities in Guinea closed a private radio station on Sunday, preventing the outlet from reporting on the next day’s protests, according to news reports. Liberté FM has been targeted in the past, the reports said.

Guinean police beat journalist covering protest

May 21, 2012 4:01 PM EDT

Police officers assaulted Alpha Oumar Diallo, a journalist for online newspaper Aminata, as he covered anti-government protests on May 10, 2012, in Conakry, the capital, according to news reports and local journalists.

Reporter Kounkou Mara, after being assaulted by police officers. (Courtesy Kounkou Mara)

Guinean journalist assaulted by police, no arrests made

March 8, 2012 4:25 PM EST

New York, March 8, 2012–Guinean authorities must investigate and bring appropriate charges against police officers who assaulted a journalist at the Central Bank of Guinea, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Reporter Kounkou Mara suffered head and other injuries in the attack. Mara, a reporter for the privately owned Le Lynx, was denied entry…

Guinean soldiers guard President Alpha Condé after a July 19 rocket attack. (AFP)

Guinean president must end media censorship

July 28, 2011 6:06 PM EDT

New York, July 28, 2011–Censorship of the press by the government of Guinean President Alpha Condé threatens the democratic strides made by the country in recent months, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.