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Title Attacks on the Press in 2006 - Snapshots: Comoros
Publisher Committee to Protect Journalists
Country Comoros
Publication Date February 2007
Cite as Committee to Protect Journalists, Attacks on the Press in 2006 - Snapshots: Comoros, February 2007, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/47c5674d1f.html [accessed 20 March 2010]

Attacks on the Press in 2006 - Snapshots: Comoros

Paramilitary police detained Aboubacar Mchangama, director of the independent weekly L'Archipel, for two days in March in the capital, Moroni, over an article detailing discontent among army officers. He was charged with "divulging military secrets," according to the pan-African news agency Panapress.

Topics: Freedom of expression,

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