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Benin jails investigative journalist over Facebook post

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Benin sentenced an investigative journalist to 18 months in prison on Tuesday for comments he posted on social media.

Ignace Sossou quoted on his Facebook and Twitter pages comments made by Benin’s public prosecutor Mario Metonou at a media event to discuss fake news on December 17.

“The internet outage on polling day on April 28 is an admission of weakness on the part of those in power,” the prosecutor reportedly said. But Benin has been facing a political crisis since controversial parliamentary elections in April sparked mass protests. Last week, Benin’s media regulatory authority suspended the radio station of Sebastien Ajavon, a Beninese businessman and opponent in exile.

 

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