Reporters confiding into foreign representations

Many journalists confirmed that they are repeatedly being threatened. “Your turn behind bars has come”, so reads the usual text messages recieved by some reporters on their mobiles. 

Some twenty reporters were present during the session. Most of the capital city’s foreign embassies sent their representatives to this meeting. Four journalists work in various regions of the country were there too. 

Since the beginning of the crisis, the Malagasy press has been becoming a shadow of its former self. Three reporters have been jailed in less than one year. Now, journalists Lolo Ratsimba, as well as the Fahazavàna radio station, Didier Ravoahangiarison, are still behind bars. They are charged as accomplices of December’s aborted RAS camp’s mutiny.