Temporary release refused for Fahazavāna's reporters27/01/2010 | 14:59:28
Both of Radio Fahazavāna'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.
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]
"...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.[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]
