Madagascar journalists take refuge in S.African embassy

Source: AFP

ANTANANARIVO — South Africa's embassy in Madagascar has granted refuge to two journalists and a technician of a closed-down opposition radio station following "prolonged harassment", it said on Friday ...

Free FM, whose director Lalatiana Rakotondrazafy is one of the journalists, was the main opposition radio station on the Indian Ocean island.

The station closed down voluntarily in July citing intimidation by the army following a mutiny.

Rakotondrazafy and one of her journalists had been detained in May for broadcasting critical of strongman Andry Rajoelina's government ...

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