Temporary release refused for Fahazavàna's reporters27/01/2010 | 14:59:28
Both of Radio Fahazavàna's reporters will have to remain behind bars. Their demand for temporary release has been rejected by the Court.
Lolo Ratsimba and Didier Ravoahangiarison, from the FJKM protestant church's Radio Fahazavàna radio station, have been in jail for three weeks so far.
A demand for temporary release has been rejected by judges in charge of the file. The advent of the High Authority of Transition, directed by Andry Rajoelina, has been leading three journalists directly in jail. The others are entitled to threats and deterrents. A crisis cell has been put in place by the capital city's journalists in order to require enhancement for journalists' working conditions, as well as the release of their colleagues.
Acrisis cell's meeting took place on Tuesday January 26th. The next months will be unveiling a certain number of actions meant to attract the authorities' attention.
The Fahazavàna radio station's Lolo Ratsimba and Didier Ravoahangiarison have been charged with "complicity" in an aborted military camp's mutiny case. Lolo Ratsimba was indeed the first reporter to have reached the scene, as Didier Ravoahangiarison would have had a CD of the call produced by the master sergeant who would have orchestrated the mutiny attempt.
The High Authority of Transition’s top spokesman is now one of the Malagasy press’ very famous reporter. Rolly Mercia is his name, editor in chief for the La Verite daily newspaper, and political presenter for Andry Rajoelina’s Viva radio station.[See]
Georges Ranaivosoa, reporter, founder of the « Revue de l’Ocean Indien” and skilled businessman, has died on June the 08th in Antananarivo at the age of 76 years old. The Malagasy press has lost one more of its leading figures.[See]
Since one week, six journalists and two employees from the Fahazavàna radio station are in criminal brigade custody. The Midi Madagascar newspaper recently reported that they started a hunger strike, the information swiftly denied by the police forces.[See]
As an ending chapter to one to the capital city's chaos day, the last servicing radio channel supportive of Marc Ravalomanana was silenced by the High Authority of Transition, in the evening of May 20th.[See]
After a couple of days offline, the Frequence Plus radio channel is resuming...tries. Regular services will definitely resume later according to the leadership[See]
The incident induced by the arrest of three of the opposition's politicians in the Frequence Plus radio station's facilities is shaking the capital city's media world.[See]
What the Malagasy press has been undergoing is rather strange. Journalists are searching for solidarity which happens to be increasingly hard to capitalize. The political crisis had the upper hand there too.[See]
Media stations closed or burnt down by supporters of the High Authority of Transition have definitely vanished for one year. Now they are, however, likely to be on their way to recovery. the madagascan journalists' union members addressed the issue onto Nathalie Rabe, the HAT communication minister.[See]
The detention of some colleagues in the run of the year 2009 political crisis has led to the foundation of a club called the Union of Madagascan Journalists. The Union is sensitizing each and everyone on journalists' duty in the Malagasy society.[See]
