1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/CPJ calls for charges against Burkinabé journalists to be dropped - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="uuPrFpOjAQ"><a href="https://cpj.org/2007/01/cpj-calls-for-charges-against-burkinab%c3%a9-journalist/">CPJ calls for charges against Burkinabé journalists to be dropped</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2007/01/cpj-calls-for-charges-against-burkinab%c3%a9-journalist/embed/#?secret=uuPrFpOjAQ" width="600" height="338" title="“CPJ calls for charges against Burkinabé journalists to be dropped” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="uuPrFpOjAQ" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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New York, January 19, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to drop criminal defamation charges against two private newspaper journalists over stories on the unsolved 1998 murder of editor Norbert Zongo. The articles discussed a report by the Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) that raised questions about…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260