The Fahazavāna radio sanctioned by the ministry for communication23/12/2009 | 13:08:03
"...One month of suspension for the news bulletin and the political program Ampenjika". So read the sanction inflicted upon the Fahazavāna radio, the single one station close to the ousted president Marc Ravalomanana, the single still working one.
For several weeks, partisans of the High Authority of Transition have been calling upon silencing the Fahazavàna radio for good. Andry Rajoelina's collaborators even sharply criticized the minister for communication, Nathalie Rabe, for failing to punish this radio channel belonging to the FJKM reformed church.
Now it is a done deal. The political program Ampenjika and the Fahazavàna radio's news bulletin are, henceforth, suspended for one month. Ampenjika has been granting live interventions to listeners. So the authorities used a listener's "incitation to violence" against the station to justify the sanction. The listener would have called upon political mobilities' demonstrators opposed to Rajoelina to carry and throw stones at the police forces in front of the National assembly's palace.
The minister for communication, Nathalie Rabe, intervened live on television and on national radio waves, in the evening of December 22nd, to make the sanctioning of the Fahazavàna radio public, in the name of the Superior Audiovisual Council.
Since the havoc and the closing of pro-Ravalomanana media groups as MBS and Mada, the Fahazavàna radio was the single last remaining radio station to echo demonstrations in favour of the ousted president.
A rather special work session was held in the Carlton hotel. It was the Malagasy reporters' occasion to openly display their profession's difficulties indulged in by the political crisis to Antananarivo's diplomatic bodies.[See]
It was the first contact ever between the minister in charge of communication, Nathalie Rabe, and capital city's editors from TV and radio stations as well as newspapers.[See]
The "Clergy leaders' movement"'s leading figures are being planning various actions, without any further information, in order to get Radio Fahazavana's reporters held in custody since nearly one month.[See]
The press microcosm is mourning one of his own again. The newspaper La Gazette de la Grande Île's journalist caricaturist, Aimé Razafy, has passed away.[See]
Some of the capital city's press groups have been denied access to the palace of Ambohitsorohitra when Andry Rajoelina gave a press conference concerning his position in face of international mediation and the setting up of the Transition's new government.[See]
