Three journalists and a union leader released in Niger


  • World
  • Friday, 14 Feb 2014

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Authorities in Niger released on Thursday three journalists from a private radio station one day after they were detained with a union leader who criticised President Mahamadou Issfouou on air, the station's director-general told Reuters.

Police on Wednesday arrested the Anfani radio station's editor in chief Abdoul-Razak Idrissa, and two journalists, Haoua Maigari and Moussa Hassane as well as union leader Ismael Salifou.

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