Journalists Detained in Burkina Faso for Defending Free Expression
Two journalists in Burkina Faso were detained on Monday the 24th March, 2025 and taken to an unknown destination after the media body to which they belong denounced attacks on freedom of expression, the association said. Burkina has witnessed multiple kidnappings of individuals perceived as critical of the junta since a coup led by Captain Ibrahim Traore in 2022.
Earlier on Facebook, the Journalists’ Association of Burkina Faso said that members posing as intelligence police had just taken its president, Guezouma Sanogo, and deputy president, Boukari Ouoba, to an unidentified location. The two men were taken into custody at a national press centre in the capital, Ouagadougou.
A few of the seven journalists who were kidnapped last year are still missing, according to other journalists who spoke at the congress.
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