Thursday , 28 March 2024
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Both of Radio Fahazavàna's reporters will have to remain behind bars. Their demand for temporary release has been rejected by the Court.

Temporary release refused for Fahazavàna’s reporters

 

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. 

A  crisis 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.