Guinea - October 2023

Since August, the military junta ruling Guinea has made it impossible to access the online media outlet Guinée Matin from inside the country. (It remains online and accessible with a VPN.) On 16 October, the Guinea Press Professionals Union (Syndicat des Professionnels de la Presse de Guinée, SPPG) organized a protest against the junta’s censorship of the outlet, in spite of a ban on demonstrations in effect since May 2022. The police forcefully supressed the protest, using teargas to disperse the assembly and arresting as many as 13 of the journalists who participated.

Sources: News24, Aminata, Reporters Without Borders, Media Foundation for West Africa, Committee to Protect Journalists